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From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxc: fix the types used in xc_dom_image to build HVM guests
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:52:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561FD9CB.7000007@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444927298.1607.112.camel@citrix.com>

El 15/10/15 a les 18.41, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
> On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 18:30 +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> Fix the types used to store the memory parameters of an HVM guest,
>> previously they defaulted to unsigned long on 32bit toolstack builds, which
>> is wrong because a 32bit value cannot hold a 64bit memory address that
>> crosses the 4GB boundary.
> 
> This header includes a xen_paddr_t in it which looks like the appropriate
> type for most of these.
> 
> The ones which have units of pages which you've changed from xen_pfn_t to
> unsigned long (not long long) should surely remain xen_pfn_t? At least
> target_pages should IMHO.
> 
> lowmem_end doesn't strictly need to be 64-bit, but xen_paddr_t seems like
> the appropriate type semantically nonetheless.

Right, I didn't realize we had a xen_paddr_t type, thanks to Juergen and
you for pointing it out. mmio_size is not a paddr, so I'm going to leave
it as unsigned long long.

Roger.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-15 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-15 14:45 [xen-unstable test] 62968: regressions - FAIL osstest service owner
2015-10-15 15:21 ` Wei Liu
2015-10-15 15:26   ` Wei Liu
2015-10-15 15:52     ` Andrew Cooper
2015-10-15 16:07       ` Wei Liu
2015-10-15 16:30         ` [PATCH] libxc: fix the types used in xc_dom_image to build HVM guests Roger Pau Monne
2015-10-15 16:39           ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-15 16:41           ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-15 16:52             ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2015-10-15 17:16               ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-15 17:17                 ` Andrew Cooper

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