Re: [Xen-devel] 32bit xen and "claim"

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> 11/01/12 9:34 PM >>>
>With the plan to obsolete the x86 32-bit hypervisor at 4.3,

That's not just a plan, but reality already.

>when prototyping the "claim" hypercall/subop, can I assume
>that the CONFIG_X86 code in the hypervisor and, specifically
>any separation of the concepts of xen_heap from dom_heap,
>can be ignored?

No, you shouldn't. Once adding support for memory amounts beyond 5Tb
I expect the separation to become meaningful even for x86-64.

>Or will the ARM version of the hypervisor be requiring
>a similar separation of xen_heap vs dom_heap?
>
>If the CONFIG_X86/separation code will no longer be used,
>shall I submit a patch to delete the code in page_alloc.c
>and memory.c?  Or can you (Keir or Jan) just delete it?

Please don't.

Jan


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