How to detect HAP from DomU?

[Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>]

Hi,

is there any way for a HVM-domain to detect whether it is running with HAP
enabled? I couldn't find any interface for this information.

Background: in our BS2000 domain (HVM with PV-drivers) we sometimes have to
copy complete pages between kernel and user. An alternative to the copy
would be a remapping of the page. The remap is faster than the copy with HAP
enabled, but much slower without HAP. So it would be best to copy without HAP
and remap with HAP.

I think this would be a candidate for XEN features (another bit in
xen/include/public/features.h). If there are no objections to this idea, I'll
make a patch.


Juergen

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