Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 1/2] tools/libs/evtchn: Add support for restricting a handle

[Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/16/2017 12:29 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ross Lagerwall writes ("Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] tools/libs/evtchn: Add support for 
> restricting a handle"):
> > No. As far as I can see, it can only be used to bind new interdomain
> > events, not other events.
> OK, good, thanks.
>
> > This entire file (including the description) is copied directly from
> > Linux's include/uapi/xen/evtchn.h so the description shouldn't be
> > changed here anyway.
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Not sure if you are targeting this at 4.9.  If you are you should have
> CC'd the RM - doing that now.  From an upstream pov these changes
> would make some difference to qemu depriv, improving it somewhat, and
> they seem very low risk.
I wasn't targeting them at 4.10 since it bumps the version number of 
libxenevtchn and I thought it would be too late to submit a v1 of a 
patch which does that _after_ code freeze. I do agree that the change 
would be low risk.
--
Ross Lagerwall

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