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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] shared_info size and padding fixes
| To: | John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| 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 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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