Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH XEN v7 07/29] tools: Refactor /dev/xen/gnt{dev, shr} wrappers into libxengnttab.

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/12/15 12:31, Ian Campbell wrote:
> libxengnttab will provide a stable API and ABI for accessing the
> grant table devices.
>
> The functions are moved into the xengnt{tab,shr} namespace to make a
> clean break from libxc and avoid ambiguity regarding which interfaces
> are stable.
>
> All in-tree users are updated to use the new names.
>
> Upon request (via #define XC_WANT_COMPAT_GNTTAB_API) libxenctrl will
> provide a compat API for the old names. This is used by qemu-xen for
> the time being. qemu-xen-traditional is updated in lockstep.
>
> This leaves a few grant table related functions which go via privcmd
> (EVTCHNOP) rather than ioctls on the /dev/xen/gnt* devices in

GNTTABOP presumably?

~Andrew

> libxenctrl. Specifically:
>
>   - xc_gnttab_get_version
>   - xc_gnttab_map_table_v1
>   - xc_gnttab_map_table_v2
>   - xc_gnttab_op


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