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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 for-4.5] xen: Bump Xen interface for Xen-4.5
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 12:07:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415102839.11486.38.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415101802-24096-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 11:50 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> c/s fce5281c "x86/mem_access: Deprecate the HVM mem_access ops" removes the
> structures associated with xen_hvm_{get,set}_mem_access from the Xen public
> API.
> 
> While these were toolstack hypercalls and documented as liable to change in
> the future, it causes build issues for certain tools (valgrind, strace).

Valgrind has its own copy of the headers and needs to process old
hypercalls as well as new anyway, it will also DTRT with the ENOSYS
which results from a tool using an old interface on a new hypervisor.

Ian.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-04 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-04 11:44 [PATCH for-4.5] xen: Bump several interface versions in preparation for Xen-4.5 Andrew Cooper
2014-11-04 11:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-11-04 11:50   ` [PATCH v2 for-4.5] xen: Bump Xen interface " Andrew Cooper
2014-11-04 12:00     ` Jan Beulich
2014-11-04 12:08       ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-04 12:24         ` Jan Beulich
2014-11-04 12:07     ` Ian Campbell [this message]

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