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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.10 3/5] tools/dombuilder: Switch to using gfn terminology for console and xenstore rings



On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:03:39AM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 06/10/17 10:57, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 06:23:41PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >> @@ -612,14 +614,19 @@ static int alloc_magic_pages_hvm(struct xc_dom_image 
> >> *dom)
> >>                                 X86_HVM_NR_SPECIAL_PAGES) )
> >>              goto error_out;
> >>  
> >> -    xc_hvm_param_set(xch, domid, HVM_PARAM_STORE_PFN,
> >> -                     special_pfn(SPECIALPAGE_XENSTORE));
> >> +    dom->xenstore_gfn = special_pfn(SPECIALPAGE_XENSTORE);
> > A pre-patch to s/special_pfn/special_gfn/ would be nice :) for
> > coherency.
> 
> Sorting out all terminology is a far larger problem than I have time for
> atm.  For HVM guests, pfn == gfn, so I chose not to dive down that
> rabbit hole right now.

Heh, right.

> >
> >> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c
> >> index ef834e6..0389a06 100644
> >> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c
> >> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c
> >> @@ -851,14 +851,9 @@ int libxl__build_pv(libxl__gc *gc, uint32_t domid,
> >>      if (ret != 0)
> >>          goto out;
> >>  
> >> -    if (xc_dom_translated(dom)) {
> >> -        state->console_mfn = dom->console_pfn;
> >> -        state->store_mfn = dom->xenstore_pfn;
> >> -        state->vuart_gfn = dom->vuart_gfn;
> > This chunk should go with patch 1, it's a PVHv1 leftover also.
> 
> Sadly, no its not :(
> 
> ARM uses libxl__build_pv(), not libxl__build_hvm()

Really? That's seems very wrong^W confusing IMHO. I'm quite sure that
with the changes I've made to libxl in PVHv2 ARM could use the HVM
guest type.

With the other nits fixed (not the "xc_dom_gnttab_hvm_seed :
xc_dom_gnttab_seed" if you don't think it's helpful):

Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, Roger.

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