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From: ANNIE LI <annie.li@oracle.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"konrad.wilk@oracle.com" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	"kurt.hackel@oracle.com" <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>,
	Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen/granttable: Support sub-page grants
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:36:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDEDF44.4000307@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EDE4EC4.8070802@goop.org>



>> Returning -Esomething might be less drastic? ENOSYS perhaps?
> Yeah, BUG_ON shouldn't be used for API misuse unless there's absolutely
> no other way to handle it.
OK, will change it, thanks.
>>> +	gnttab_shared.v2[ref].sub_page.frame = frame;
>>> +	gnttab_shared.v2[ref].sub_page.page_off = page_off;
>>> +	gnttab_shared.v2[ref].sub_page.length = length;
>>> +	gnttab_shared.v2[ref].hdr.domid = domid;
>>> +	wmb();
>>> +	gnttab_shared.v2[ref].hdr.flags =
>>> +				GTF_permit_access | GTF_sub_page | flags;
>>> +}
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref_subpage_v2);
>>> +
>>> +bool gnttab_subpage_trans_grants_available(void)
>>> +{
>>> +	return grant_table_version == 2;
>>> +}
>> It's not clear this adds anything over and above letting the user query
>> the grant table version. It's hard to tell since there are no users
>> presented here though. Perhaps separate subpage and transitive functions
>> would be cleaner?
> Well, in general, specifically testing for features rather than
> interface versions is better.
Ok, will split it into 2 functions and check the function pointer 
instead of grant table version, thanks.

Thanks
Annie


  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-07  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-06 10:53 xen: patches for supporting sub-page and transitive grants ANNIE LI
2011-12-06 10:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] xen/granttable: Support sub-page grants annie.li
2011-12-06 11:42   ` Ian Campbell
2011-12-06 17:20     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-12-07  3:36       ` ANNIE LI [this message]
2011-12-07  3:36     ` ANNIE LI
2011-12-07  8:59       ` Paul Durrant
2011-12-07  9:57         ` Ian Campbell
2011-12-07 10:27           ` ANNIE LI
2011-12-07 10:33             ` Ian Campbell
2011-12-07 10:50               ` ANNIE LI
2011-12-07 19:41         ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-07  9:56       ` Ian Campbell
2011-12-07 10:27         ` ANNIE LI
2011-12-07 10:36   ` ANNIE LI
2011-12-06 10:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] xen/granttable: Support transitive grants annie.li

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