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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC] i386: highmem access assistancehypercalls

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC] i386: highmem access assistancehypercalls
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:38:53 +0100
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>>> Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 20.10.08 16:27 >>>
>On 17/10/08 16:28, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The hypervisor patch is below (using temporary numbers for the newly
>> added sub-hypercalls), the Linux patch didn't change over the first
>> submission (if the patch here is acceptable, I'll create a version
>> that applies to the 2.6.18 tree).
>> 
>> Opinions?
>
>I'm fine in principle. A cursory glance at the substance of the patch
>indicates that there are some secondary portions which could be discarded or
>broken out into separate patches: the constifying of unmap_domain_page*()
>and the addition of FIX_HOLE to fixmap.h. Please divide up as appropriate
>and re-send.

Will do. One question I forgot to ask with the original mail: Should this
functionality be announced via a new feature bit?

Jan


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