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

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 07:23:41PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The sole use of xc_dom_translated() and xc_dom_p2m() outside of the domain
> builder is for libxl_dom() to translate the console and xenstore pfns back
> into useful values.  PV guest pfns are only interesting to the domain builder,
> and gfns are the address space used by all other hypercalls.
> 
> Renaming the fields in xc_dom_image is deliberate, as it will cause
> out-of-tree users of the dombuilder to notice the different semantics.
> 
> Correct the terminology throughout xc_dom_gnttab{_hvm,}_seed(), which are all
> using gfns despite the existing variable names.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

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