Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 10/20] acpi/hvmloader: Replace mem_alloc() and virt_to_phys() with memory ops

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> 07/08/16 6:20 PM >>>
>On 07/08/2016 11:35 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 08.07.16 at 17:23, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Is it up to the builder to decide which tables are important and which
>>> are not?
>> I'm afraid that's not so easy to tell. If for example we can't fit the
>> HPET table, the guest could be run without HPET unless a HPET
>> was specifically requested (rather than just defaulted to).
>
>But again --- how will the caller know that it was only HPET table that
>was not built?

Why would the caller care? I guess examples could be found where it is
necessary for the caller to know, but for the specific example (and at least
some others) failure is of no interest to the caller - it's only the guest which
is affected.

Jan




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