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From: Steve Ofsthun <sofsthun@virtualiron.com>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Hypercalls from HVM guests (1/2)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:25:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <443E5135.7000703@virtualiron.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c23fd6830877a615d575c88b4606a340@cl.cam.ac.uk>

Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> On 12 Apr 2006, at 19:40, Steve Ofsthun wrote:
> 
>> Here is the main hypervisor/hvmloader patch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Steve Ofsthun <sofsthun@virtualiron.com>
> 
> All in-memory hypercall arguments are now accessed via 
> copy_to/from_guest and copy_to/from_user are no longer used for that 
> purpose at all. That given, can the special path for HVM guests be made 
> in copy_to/from_guest (no need to make conditional on hypervisor_va()) 
> and not touch copy_to/from_user?

Yes, that sounds right.  I'll put together an updated patch.

Thanks,
Steve
-- 
Steve Ofsthun - Virtual Iron Software, Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-13 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-12 18:40 [RFC][PATCH] Hypercalls from HVM guests (1/2) Steve Ofsthun
2006-04-13  7:42 ` Keir Fraser
2006-04-13 13:25   ` Steve Ofsthun [this message]
2006-04-13 17:11 ` [RFC][PATCH] Hypercalls from HVM guests (1/2) [RESUBMIT] Steve Ofsthun

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