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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 4] x86: make the pv-only e820 array be dynam

To: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 4] x86: make the pv-only e820 array be dynamic
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:32:10 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:46:15AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 12/04/2011 18:21, "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:06:05PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> >> On 12/04/2011 13:53, "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>>> How cunning.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Why wouldn't you just allocate exactly the right size of array in
> >>>> XENMEM_set_memory_map?
> >>> 
> >>> I was thinking about it, but the mm.c code did not have the
> >>> xen/xmalloc.h header, nor any references to xmalloc_array.
> >>> 
> >>> Is it OK to make an xmalloc_array during a hypercall?
> >> 
> >> Yes. I think the toolstack should be able to clean up on the newly-possible
> >> ENOMEM return from this hypercall.
> > 
> > Hm, not sure what I am hitting, but I can't seem to be able to copy over the
> > contents to the newly allocated array from the guest (this works
> > fine with the previous version of the patch). This is what I get
> 
> Your patch is not really quite right. I've attached a modified version for
> you to try.

Excellent, and it works quite nicely. Thank you.

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