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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Allow programatic iomem permissions

To: Kieran Mansley <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Allow programatic iomem permissions
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:46:25 +0100
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On 18/7/07 12:29, "Kieran Mansley" <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As this modifies a fairly heavily used and vital region of Xen I'm
> guessing that there's a unit test somewhere that I could run (or get run
> by whoever controls the test).  Can anyone point me at this?  If there's
> no such test, knowing that would help too.

There's no unit test. Running normal device drivers gives a pretty good
workout though.

> If this patch is acceptable (and once better tested) I'll repost with it
> signed off, together with the change to redefine the
> grant_operation_permitted macro, and the iomem permission patch that
> prompted this in the first place.

I'll add it to my to-look-at list. It might be a little while.

 -- Keir


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