RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]vbd/vnif paravirtulization driver hypervisorsupport]

["Ling, Xiaofeng" <xiaofeng.ling@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, the last patch missed three files.(mm.h, shadow.h, domain.h)
This one is the correct one.

Xiaofeng Ling <> wrote:
> This patch adds paravirutulization driver support for vmx domain in
> hypervisor.  The VBD and VNIF frontend driver can then be used in
> unmodified kernel as a module to get better performance than device
> model. The backend driver needs no change and can work together with
> xeno-linux.   
> The event channel mechanism works as a pci device in guest linux, so
> a event channel device driver will as basic module in guest kernel. 
> 
> What's the patch done is:
> 1.copy_to/from_guest support, which is used to copy context from/to
> guest space to hypervisor space. 
> 2.copy_to/from_user will call copy_to/from_guest for a vmx domain.
> 3.A separate hypercall table for paravirutulization driver which mask
> some unused entries. 
> 4.add hypercalls for address translation.and share page mapping (event
>   channel and grant table)
> 5.clean some hypercalls path for vmx domain.

Attachment: paravirtulization-driver-hypervisor-update.patch
Description: paravirtulization-driver-hypervisor-update.patch

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