Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Synchronize privcmd header constants

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/10/12 17:46, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> 
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 4:37 AM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 19/10/12 04:20, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
>>> I've had a look. The xen.org tree knows about three other OSes: minios, 
>>> solaris and netbsd. None knows about paged out frames. None uses the 
>>> XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_PAGEDTAB constant in domctl.h
>>>
>>> 1. The domctl.h constant can still go away without hurting other OSes.
>>
>> I've checked and NetBSD doesn't use XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_PAGEDTAB, so as
>> Andres says I guess it's safe to remove it.
>>
>>> 2. It is trivial to add the PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH_* constants to the privcmd.h 
>>> of other OSes. It can't hurt. I can do it here. Each OS Xen maintainer 
>>> would have to take care of syncing that up in the respective upstream. 
>>> However ...
>>> 3. Not that trivial to teach all these OSes about paged out frames. Does 
>>> anyone care?
>>
>> Well, I'm sure the NetBSD community would be interested in this, but
>> finding someone to actually work on it is a whole different story…
> 
> Thanks Roger. Ian should I expect a response from Solaris?

Solaris (Illumos) is currently pretty broken, and has gone the KVM side
as far as I know, so I wouldn't expect any response.

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