Re: Please ack XENMEM_claim_pages hypercall?

[Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>]

On 27/11/2012 08:48, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> Sorry, there must have been some misunderstanding here: First
> of all, without a maintainer's ack (Keir's in this case) I can't commit
> anything to code that I'm not explicitly listed for as maintainer.
> 
> Second, while I said the code itself looks acceptable, I also pointed
> out that in the shape it is right now it is dead code, as there's no
> user for it. So all we would get would be the risk of new bugs (and
> the one I just pointed out worries me in so far as how much testing
> this code really has seen).
> 
> Third, deferral (or denial) of the patch going in is certainly not a
> blocking factor for tools side development at Oracle. In the worst
> case, you'd have to maintain the patch in your own tree(s); I do
> realize that you want to avoid that (as I would, but there are
> examples of patches that we carry in our trees that didn't get
> accepted into the community one - luckily they're of smaller size).

It's actually not that large a patch, and perhaps we could take a
domain_adjust_tot_pages() hook which would reduce the size of any private
patch, while not inflicting a maintenance or bug burden on mainline.

 -- Keir