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[Xen-devel] RE: A question of grant table version

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Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: A question of grant table version
From: MaoXiaoyun <tinnycloud@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 11:35:33 +0800
Cc: Mao Xiaoyun <tinnycloud@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Also, it looks like some commit has been missed to apply to 2.6.32.36
 
grant-table.c history in 2.6.31
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=history;f=drivers/xen/grant-table.c;h=09bb7425cd46097b3d96feb342508069c610d78d;hb=bb1a15e55ec665a64c8a9c6bd699b1f16ac01ff4
 
below commit is not found in 2.6.32
2009-10-07 Steven Smith Extend the grant tables implementation with an improved...
2009-10-07 Steven Smith Add support for transitive grants.
2009-10-07 Steven Smith Add support for copy only (sub-page) grants.
2009-10-07 Steven Smith Introduce support for version 2 grant tables. Use...
2009-10-07 Steven Smith Fix a long-standing memory leak in the grant tables...
2009-10-07 Steven Smith Introduce a live_maps facility for tracking which domai...

 Am I right?
 
> Subject: A question of grant table version
> From: tinnycloud@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 09:28:06 +0800
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hi
>
> I have a question on grant table version.
> In 2.6.31 pvops kernel, there is a gnttab_request_version to request using version 2.
> But this cannot be found in 2.6.3236 pvops kernel, that is it uses version 1.
>
> So, the fact is newer kernel use older grant table version, it doesn,t make sense to me.
> Could someone comfirm it is on purpose?
>
> Many thanks.
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