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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>,
	Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add cpu idle pwr mgmt to xen
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:25:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48186528.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C43E01C7.201DC%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>

>>> Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> 30.04.08 12:00 >>>
>Yes, I don't think we do partial copying anywhere right now. If we did, we
>could apply guest_handle_okay() checks explicitly before removing the
>addr-space limitation.

XENMEM_set_memory_map is one example where we do (valid here
because the E820 layout is identical for 32- and 64-bits).

>On the other hand, I don't think we have any hypercall right now where 4kB
>is likely to be too little space, and where the hypercall cannot be
>sub-divided into smaller chunks by the compat shim.

XENMEM_exchange and GNTTABOP_setup_table are examples for this.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-25  5:07 [PATCH 1/9] Add cpu idle pwr mgmt to xen Wei, Gang
2008-04-25 13:00 ` Keir Fraser
2008-04-25 13:29   ` Wei, Gang
2008-04-26  9:55   ` Wei, Gang
2008-04-28  9:24     ` Jan Beulich
2008-04-30  3:27       ` Wei, Gang
2008-04-30  7:22         ` Jan Beulich
2008-04-30  8:54           ` Keir Fraser
2008-04-30  9:08             ` Wei, Gang
2008-04-30  9:12             ` Tian, Kevin
2008-04-30  9:18               ` Tian, Kevin
2008-04-30  9:35               ` Jan Beulich
2008-04-30  9:42                 ` Tian, Kevin
2008-04-30 10:00                   ` Keir Fraser
2008-04-30 10:25                     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2008-04-30 12:27                       ` Keir Fraser
2008-04-30 10:25                   ` Jan Beulich
2008-05-05  6:34                     ` Tian, Kevin
2008-04-30 16:36           ` Wei, Gang
2008-05-01  0:48           ` Wei, Gang

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