From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xensource.com>,
xen-ppc-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [XenPPC] Re: [PATCH 6 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Add 32-bit privcmd ioctlconversion for 64-b
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:11:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C2B7BA51.12119%keir@xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46921602.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
On 9/7/07 10:03, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>> We've already fixed all the shared structures (e.g. sysctl) to use
>> explicitly-sized types, so the PowerPC port has always had proper
>> interfaces. For example, look at the definition of xen_ulong_t on the
>> different architectures. The x86 interfaces were frozen too early,
>> cementing this problem for you.
>
> Oh, sorry, I forgot that you had this taken care of implicitly on PPC.
> I had hoped we could leverage the code you are adding for x86, but -
> no luck.
I think the only structure that actually needs conversion is the xen_pfn_t
array in privcmd_mmapbatch. So it's not as bad as it first appears.
-- Keir
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-09 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 22:27 [PATCH 0 of 6] PowerPC Linux patches, rev 2 Hollis Blanchard
2007-07-05 22:27 ` [PATCH 1 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Add Kconfig option for the balloon driver Hollis Blanchard
2007-07-05 22:27 ` [PATCH 2 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Create Xen-specific interface for xlate_dev_mem_* Hollis Blanchard
2007-07-06 8:01 ` [PATCH 2 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Create Xen-specificinterface " Jan Beulich
2007-07-05 22:27 ` [PATCH 3 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Add architecture-generic xencomm infrastructure Hollis Blanchard
2007-07-05 22:27 ` [PATCH 4 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Invert #ifdef for x86-specific *_vm_area() Hollis Blanchard
2007-07-05 22:27 ` [PATCH 5 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Refactor grant table allocation into arch-specific code Hollis Blanchard
2007-07-06 8:04 ` [PATCH 5 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Refactor grant tableallocation " Jan Beulich
2007-07-06 13:16 ` [PATCH 5 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Refactor grant table allocation " Keir Fraser
2007-07-05 22:27 ` [PATCH 6 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Add 32-bit privcmd ioctl conversion for 64-bit kernels Hollis Blanchard
2007-07-06 8:09 ` [PATCH 6 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Add 32-bit privcmd ioctlconversion " Jan Beulich
2007-07-06 9:29 ` Keir Fraser
2007-07-06 15:44 ` [XenPPC] " Hollis Blanchard
2007-07-06 16:09 ` [XenPPC] Re: [PATCH 6 of 6] [XEN][LINUX] Add 32-bit privcmd ioctlconversion for 64-b Jan Beulich
2007-07-06 18:17 ` Re: [Xen-devel] " Hollis Blanchard
2007-07-09 9:03 ` [XenPPC] " Jan Beulich
2007-07-09 9:11 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
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