From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Deegan Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] Mem event ring interface setup update, V3 rebased Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:42:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20120308164204.GN64337@ocelot.phlegethon.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Cc: olaf@aepfle.de, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com, andres@gridcentric.ca, keir.xen@gmail.com, ian.jackson@citrix.com, adin@gridcentric.ca List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org At 10:02 -0500 on 08 Mar (1331200975), Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote: > Update the interface for setting up mem event rings (for sharing, mem > access or paging). > > Remove the "shared page", which was a waste of a whole page for a > single event channel port value. > > More importantly, both the shared page and the ring page were dom0 > user-space process pages mapped by the hypervisor. If the dom0 process > does not clean up, the hypervisor keeps posting events (and holding a > map) to a page now belonging to another process. Applied, thanks. Tim.