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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	"Tim Deegan (3P)" <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] xen: introduce XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_PARAM
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 08:48:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1344412120.11783.4.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50212F6902000078000933E4@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 14:08 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> See how
> x86-64 just recently got the ILP32 model [aka x32] added for
> this very reason.)

For userspace only though, with the kernel remaining a full 64-bit
kernel. I don't know what direction they eventually took but there was
also a contingent in favour of using the 64-bit syscall ABI for x32.

I don't think that the wastage at the hypercall interface is going to be
significant. Especially once you consider that many of the 32-bit fields
actually need to be 64-bit for a compat mode guest any, e.g. MFNs should
certainly be 64 bit regardless or else you impose limitations on 32-bit
guests which the 64-bit hypervisor doesn't itself have.

Ian.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-08  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-06 14:11 [PATCH 0/5] ARM hypercall ABI: 64 bit ready Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] xen: improve changes to xen_add_to_physmap Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 14:24   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-08-06 14:38     ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 15:32   ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-06 15:43     ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 15:54       ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-07 12:27         ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-07 12:40           ` Jean Guyader
2012-08-07 13:18             ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-07 17:07               ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-08  7:14                 ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-08  7:45                   ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-08  8:49                     ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-08  9:51                       ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-08 10:03                         ` Jean Guyader
2012-08-08 10:08                           ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-08 14:20                           ` David Vrabel
2012-08-08 19:33                             ` Jean Guyader
2012-08-07 13:02           ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-07 15:24             ` Ian Jackson
2012-08-07 15:37               ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-11  1:33   ` Mukesh Rathor
2012-08-13 10:43     ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] xen/arm: introduce __lshrdi3 and __aeabi_llsr Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-09  9:16   ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-09  9:43     ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] xen: few more xen_ulong_t substitutions Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 15:38   ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-07 12:08     ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-07 12:36       ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-07 13:13         ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-07 13:30           ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-07 12:54       ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-08  7:59         ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-08 12:12         ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-08 12:17           ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-08 14:07           ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-08 15:01             ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-08 15:12               ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-08 15:55                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] xen: introduce XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_PARAM Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 15:43   ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-06 15:47     ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-06 15:58       ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-06 16:02         ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-07  6:24           ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-07 12:35             ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-07 12:39               ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-07 13:08               ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-07 18:09                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-08  7:48                 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2012-08-08  8:54                   ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] xen: replace XEN_GUEST_HANDLE with XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_PARAM when appropriate Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 0/5] ARM hypercall ABI: 64 bit ready David Vrabel
2012-08-06 14:44   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 14:49     ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-08-06 14:59     ` David Vrabel

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