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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch] ACM ops interface


On 8 Jun 2006, at 22:25, Reiner Sailer wrote:

> Anyway, should I take Hollis's patch or do you want it worked on some
 > more?
 >
> As for copy_to/from_user sleeping, they don't sleep in Xen but it would > be nice to avoid putting it in a locked region anyway in case we want
 > to do anything clever in future. I may start asserting that in debug
 > builds.
 >
 >   -- Keir
 >

Makes sense.

If Hollis doesn't include it in his patch, then I will address it next week.

Looking at how broken some other hypercalls would be if I added this restriction (e.g., dom0_op) don't worry about it.

 -- Keir


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