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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] passing hypercall parameters by pointer
On 19 Aug 2005, at 12:52, Jimi Xenidis wrote: IP> Since passing by VA is so convenient on the architectures that IP> support it we may not want to do anything different on these IP> anyhow. I agree, why create a new mapping when a usable one exists. At least for common kernel code, we will need to wrap such VAs in a macro so that the "psuedo-physical" is passed in for PPC. I assume this is reasonable? This is all potentially fixable before 3.0 final. Paravirt x86 can continue to use guest virtual addresses. The idea would be that the registration scheme would essentially create a parameter-passing 'address space' into which you hook pages of memory. On x86 we would map the address space onto regions of kernel va space. On other arches we would map the address space onto physical addresses that get mapped into Xen's va space. get_user/put_user/copy_from_user/copy_to_user will take guest addresses that point into this parameter-passing address space. At least we can scope it out by doing a few hypercalls to start with -- probably dom0_ops first and see how it pans out. I think it will work quite well... -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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