Re: [Xen-devel] [V2 PATCH 6/8] PVH dom0: Introduce p2m_map_foreign

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/26/2013 04:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 16:00 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Mukesh Rathor
> > <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > In this patch, a new type p2m_map_foreign is introduced for pages
> > > that toolstack on PVH dom0 maps from foreign domains that its creating
> > > or supporting during it's run time.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Why is this needed?  Does ARM have a concept of p2m_map_foreign?  grep
> > doesn't turn it up... how does ARM dom0 deal with foreign mappings,
> > and is there a reason we can't copy their approach?
> The p2m types are currently per-arch. ARM doesn't currently have much in
> the way of the concept of such things, but it should eventually and
> foreign map seems likely to be one of them.
Oh, right -- I see now; the interface Mukesh is implementing -- 
XENMAPSPACE_gmfn_foreign and XENMEM_add_to_physmap_range -- is basically 
the same as the ARM dom0 interface.
That's an important piece of information.

 -George

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