[Xen-devel] Re: [rfc] [patch] more 'long' in the hypervisor interface

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 Jun 2006, at 22:03, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

> Hi Keir, we've come across some more users of 'long' in the hypervisor
> interface: xen/include/public/memory.h. Unlike the dom0_ops, we can't
> just change these to be 64 bits because 32-bit kernels use these
> structures for the balloon driver.
>
> I would like to create a new type, say "legacy_ulong_t", to cover these
> cases and future instances we'll undoubtedly come across. What do you
> think?
>
> Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Call them xen_ulong_t and they're fine. They're hardly legacy since 
there's no suitable non-legacy replacement right now. Don't forget the 
typedef in the other arch-*.h headers as well.
 -- Keir


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