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Re: [Xen-devel] Third release of GPL'd PV drivers for Windows

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Third release of GPL'd PV drivers for Windows
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:48:36 +0000
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James Harper, le Fri 09 Nov 2007 21:37:23 +1100, a écrit :
> Windows appears to mostly give buffers aligned to a multiple of
> 512 bytes (sector size) which may allow me to just grant Dom0 access to
> the page... although what happens to the other bytes in the page?

They are untouched, so you can make the optimization, unless you are
paranoid enough about information leakage and don't trust dom0.

Samuel

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