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Re: [XenPPC] xencomm_create_mini() w/ user buffers


On Aug 10, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 13:51 -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
On Aug 10, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 23:02 +0000, Xen patchbot-linux-ppc-2.6 wrote:
-       rc = xencomm_create(arg, argsize, &desc, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!slab) {
+               slab = slab_is_available();
+       }
+       if (slab)
+ rc = xencomm_create(arg, argsize, &desc, GFP_KERNEL);
+       else
+ rc = xencomm_create_mini(xc_area, XENCOMM_MINI_AREA,
+                                        arg, argsize, &desc);

Why bother? If you have to use _mini() once, why not just use it
all the
time?

Because _mini() is for kernel space only, and this routine services
user-level pointers as well, I did not think that changing _mini()
was worth it.

Would xencomm_create_mini() work just as well using __vaddr_to_paddr? It
looks like we could remove __kern_paddr entirely.

Well I was not sure why you made __kern_paddr(), I was not prepared to remove it without consulting you.
Glad it working :)


Actually, instead of slab_is_available() we could have use something
like "have started init"() but I know of no such function.

The real question is "can we call get_free_page()?" Having started init
seems as coincidentally related to that as slab_is_available()...
aww cmon, slab and free_page() are a least 2nd cousins :)

but actually, I think the real question is "is arg a user level pointer"?
-JX






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