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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] shared_info size and padding fixes

To: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] shared_info size and padding fixes
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:29:25 +0100
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On 10/8/06 1:13 pm, "John Levon" <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, see the previous discussion with Keir - changing the size of the
> shared info structure is apparently not part of the ABI (hence the
> reason for the patch and the explanation above!)
> 
> Personally this seems unusual at best to me, but that's the way it is,
> and furthermore has already happened with "nmi_reason".

Your patch looked fine, by the way, except that adding padding to every
arch-specific portion of shared info seems unnecessary.

 -- Keir



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