From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, tim@xen.org,
ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen: Allow xen tools to run in guest using 64K page granularity
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:10:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558C0BF2.2070007@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435231406.32500.40.camel@citrix.com>
Hi,
On 25/06/2015 12:23, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 11:21 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:55:34PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This small series are the only changes required in Xen in order to run a guest
>>> using 64K page granularity on top of an unmodified Xen.
>>>
>>> I'd like feedback from maintainers tools to know if it might be worth to
>>> introduce a function xc_pagesize() replicating the behavior of getpagesize()
>>> for Xen.
>>>
>>
>> Can we start with documenting the ABI (?) for communicating between
>> guests with different page sizes?
>
> We should certainly make it clearer what things are in terms of "Xen ABI
> page size" vs "the guest's page size" and other things.
Don't we already say somewhere that the page granularity for the
hypercall (though I haven't found it).
I can send a follow-up to clarify the page granularity for each PV protocol.
Regards,
--
Julien Grall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-25 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-11 11:55 [PATCH 0/2] xen: Allow xen tools to run in guest using 64K page granularity Julien Grall
2015-05-11 11:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] tools/xenstored: Use XC_PAGE_SIZE rather than getpagesize() Julien Grall
2015-05-11 11:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] tools/xenconsoled: " Julien Grall
2015-06-23 16:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] xen: Allow xen tools to run in guest using 64K page granularity Julien Grall
2015-06-25 10:21 ` Wei Liu
2015-06-25 11:23 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-25 11:45 ` Wei Liu
2015-06-25 14:10 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2015-07-07 12:20 ` Julien Grall
2015-07-07 15:19 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-20 13:57 ` Julien Grall
2015-07-20 14:06 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-25 12:58 ` Wei Liu
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