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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3 of 7] xen: allows more hypercalls from stubdoms

To: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3 of 7] xen: allows more hypercalls from stubdoms
From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:14:11 +0100
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Stefano Stabellini wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Stefano Stabellini, le Mon 12 Oct 2009 18:20:09 +0100, a écrit :
> > > Stubdoms need to be able to make all the passthrough related hypercalls
> > > on behalf of the guest.
> > 
> > Tried before, nacked by Keir :)
> 
> Last time I spoke with Keir I got the impression that allowing only the
> hypercalls strictly needed for passthrough was OK.
> 
> In any case I would greately appreciate if all the other patches were
> accepted in any case because I wouldn't want them to bitrot.
>

BTW: it cannot be worse than opening /dev/mem O_RDWR in qemu-xen, that
is exactly what happens at the moment.
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