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* RE: [patch] "frame number" size in hypercall ABI
@ 2006-04-19 18:45 Nakajima, Jun
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From: Nakajima, Jun @ 2006-04-19 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Keir Fraser, Hollis Blanchard; +Cc: xen-devel, Joe Bonasera

Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2006, at 17:44, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> 
>> "xen_frameno_t" then?
> 
> xen_pfn_t? Definitely won't conflict with anyone, and I prefer 'pfn'
> to 'frameno' as it's more consistent with other names we have in the
> interface.
> 
>> Attached is the updated patch, with typos fixed and a couple other
>> corrections. I've also added the type to arch-x86_64.h and
>> arch-ia64.h, so I think the patch is ready to be applied.
> 
> What about the Linux kernel -- shouldn't that be changed too? At least
> where it handles arrays of longs passed to memory_op()?
> 
> Inside Xen, does shadow.h really need changing at all? Once entries
> are unpacked from an array by a hypercall they could just be passed
> round as longs, right?

I don't think we need those changes in shadow.h. I'm not clear what we
are tying to achieve here. I assume the area of interest is just
hypercall ABI, not changing the data type for the page frame numbers
(from unsigned long to xen_pfn_t). 

> 
> Sorry about the to'ing-and-fro'ing but we need to make sure interface
> changes are complete and correct and this one is inevitably pretty
> far-reaching.
> 
>   -- Keir
> 
> 

Jun
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2006-04-19 15:32 ` [rfc] [patch] "frame number" size in hypercall ABI Joe Bonasera
2006-04-19 15:43   ` Keir Fraser
2006-04-19 16:44     ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-04-19 18:25       ` Keir Fraser
2006-04-19 19:14         ` Joe Bonasera
2006-04-19 19:30         ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-04-19 20:11           ` Keir Fraser
2006-04-20 18:13             ` Xen terminology wiki page Hollis Blanchard
2006-04-20 18:53               ` Keir Fraser
2006-04-20 16:09         ` [patch] "frame number" size in hypercall ABI Hollis Blanchard
2006-04-20 16:18           ` Keir Fraser
2006-04-20 21:15             ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-04-20 22:35               ` Keir Fraser
2006-04-24 16:43                 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-04-19 18:45 Nakajima, Jun

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