From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel De Graaf Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add grant references for fbfront/kbdfront Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:32:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4D276A3D.8040604@tycho.nsa.gov> References: <1294416779-13833-1-git-send-email-dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov> <20110107165130.GC23825@dumpdata.com> <4D27538C.2070600@tycho.nsa.gov> <20110107192115.GC27871@dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110107192115.GC27871@dumpdata.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 01/07/2011 02:21 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:55:24PM -0500, Daniel De Graaf wrote: >> On 01/07/2011 11:51 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:12:56AM -0500, dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov wrote: >>>> This series fixes the interface for the fbfront and kbdfront devices, >>>> which were storing MFNs in xenstore rather than creating grant table >>>> entries. To maintain backwards compatibility, a different xenstore key >>>> is used (page-gref instead of page-ref) and the use of grants must be >>>> requested for fbfront (because two levels of page references are >>>> embedded within the shared page). This makes it possible to move a >>>> display server out of dom0 without giving the display domain full >>>> access to other domain's memory. >>> >>> So these patches go on top of xen/stable-2.6.32 tree right? >>> >> >> They apply to either 2.6.32 or 2.6.37; I have tested them on both. > > What is the 2.6.37 branch you applied it to? Can you point me to the > git tree? Or a set of patches that need to be applied on top of ftp.kernel.org > virgin 2.6.37? > It should apply on top of any 2.6.37 tree; I sent the patches from a rebase on top of the v2.6.37 tag on ftp.kernel.org. They should apply cleanly on any branch unless I missed other pending changes to fbfront. -- Daniel De Graaf National Security Agency