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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC/PATCH] XENMEM_claim_pages (subop of an existing) hypercall



>>> On 15.11.12 at 11:47, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 22:23 +0000, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>> This is a first cut of the hypervisor patch of the proposed
>> XENMEM_claim_pages hypercall/subop.
> 
> Who is expected to be able to call this? I think a XENMEM subop implies
> that the guest itself, plus perhaps any controlling stubdom (e.g. qemu) 
> could call
> it, which I don't think is desirable.
> 
> Should this be limited to the toolstack only and therefore be a subop of
> domctl or some other hypercall?

Oh, yes, absolutely. Whether making it a domctl (where it doesn't
belong except for that aspect) I'm not that sure, though.

Jan


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