Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][TOOLS] libxc: mmap fixes for BSD

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/6/08 15:09, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On BSD, mmap()ing files works on on-disk files but not on
> pseudo filesystems like kernfs or procfs.
> Therefore, attached patch mmap()s anonymous memory.
> 
> Linux equivalents are sysfs and procfs to above BSD's pseudo-filesystems.
> On Linux, mmap is implemented for sysfs but it is questionable to me
> how write operations work since (most) files in sysfs have
> static content. So this patch may fix some problems
> with a Linux Dom0, too.

We can hide special setup in mmap(/proc/xen/privcmd) that is necessary for
later foreign mapping operations. Perhaps xc_map_foreign_ranges() interface
could be changed so that it does the mmap(), then fills in the .va field in
the array of entries that it is passed, and finally return the address it
got from mmap()?

This would make xc_map_foreign_ranges() similar to our other xc_map*()
functions, which all hide the mmap() invocation inside their implementation.

 -- Keir



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