Re: [Xen-devel] The mfn of the frame, that holds a mlock-ed PV domU usermode page, can change

[Joanna Rutkowska <joanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/12/2010 10:01 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Why is it necessary to map usermode pages?  It just seems like asking
> for trouble.  Why not make it so that the domU X server gets the memory
> from the kernel (via some kind of driver), and then map that through to
> dom0?

Because we want to avoid modifying Xorg sources -- it normally allocates
its composition buffers using malloc, and if we wanted to make it using
some kernel allocated memory (by our custom driver) we would need to
patch the Xorg, which we obviously wanted to avoid...

joanna.

ps. Copied this to qubes-devel as well.

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