Re: [XenPPC] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 6 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Add 32-bit privcmd ioctlconversion for 64-b

[Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/7/07 10:03, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> We've already fixed all the shared structures (e.g. sysctl) to use
>> explicitly-sized types, so the PowerPC port has always had proper
>> interfaces. For example, look at the definition of xen_ulong_t on the
>> different architectures. The x86 interfaces were frozen too early,
>> cementing this problem for you.
> 
> Oh, sorry, I forgot that you had this taken care of implicitly on PPC.
> I had hoped we could leverage the code you are adding for x86, but -
> no luck.

I think the only structure that actually needs conversion is the xen_pfn_t
array in privcmd_mmapbatch. So it's not as bad as it first appears.

 -- Keir


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