Re: [PATCH] Xen backend support for paged out grant targets.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 20:45 +0100, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 18:28 +0100, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> >> 
> >> * Add placeholder in array of grant table error descriptions for
> >> unrelated error code we jump over. 
> > 
> > Why not just define it, it's listed here:
> > http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/hypercall/include,public,grant_table.h.html#Enum_grant_status
> Well, a) we'd be defining something no one will be using (for the
> moment)

Even if no one in the kernel is using it, having "placeholder" as an
entry in GNTTABOP_error_msgs is just silly, even things which don't
understand GNTST_address_too_big directly could end up looking it up
here.

>  b) I would be signing-off on something unrelated.

Lets take this patch instead then.

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>From cb9daaf3029accb6d5fef58b450a625b27190429 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:10:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] xen: resynchronise grant table status codes with upstream

Adds GNTST_address_too_big and GNTST_eagain.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
---
 include/xen/interface/grant_table.h |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/xen/interface/grant_table.h b/include/xen/interface/grant_table.h
index a17d844..84a8fbf 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/grant_table.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/grant_table.h
@@ -519,7 +519,9 @@ DEFINE_GUEST_HANDLE_STRUCT(gnttab_get_version);
 #define GNTST_no_device_space  (-7) /* Out of space in I/O MMU.              */
 #define GNTST_permission_denied (-8) /* Not enough privilege for operation.  */
 #define GNTST_bad_page         (-9) /* Specified page was invalid for op.    */
-#define GNTST_bad_copy_arg    (-10) /* copy arguments cross page boundary */
+#define GNTST_bad_copy_arg    (-10) /* copy arguments cross page boundary.   */
+#define GNTST_address_too_big (-11) /* transfer page address too large.      */
+#define GNTST_eagain          (-12) /* Operation not done; try again.        */
 
 #define GNTTABOP_error_msgs {                   \
     "okay",                                     \
@@ -532,7 +534,9 @@ DEFINE_GUEST_HANDLE_STRUCT(gnttab_get_version);
     "no spare translation slot in the I/O MMU", \
     "permission denied",                        \
     "bad page",                                 \
-    "copy arguments cross page boundary"        \
+    "copy arguments cross page boundary",       \
+    "page address size too large",              \
+    "operation not done; try again"             \
 }
 
 #endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_GRANT_TABLE_H__ */
-- 
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