RE: [Xen-devel] separate domain info and vcpu context

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Why should GETDOMAINCONTEXT also return the number of active VCPUs?

There's no need.

> That seems redundant. It would make more sense to me for it 
> to take exec_domain as an in/out variable. The value coming 
> in would be the index into the active CPUs and the out value 
> would be the actual vcpu number. So if you were running with 
> 4 vcpus but only the 4th vcpu was active, the caller would 
> set exec_domain to 0 and then xen would set exec_domain to 3.
> 
> I'd like to keep the number of iterations to 1, so just  to clarify
> - in GETDOMAININFO, exec_domain will be changed to out 
> variable n_active_vcpus, ctxt will be removed.

Yes.

> - GETDOMAINCONTEXT will have two fields, (u16)exec_domain 
> described above and  (vcpu_guest_context_t *)ctxt

Yes.

Ian

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