Re: [PATCH] Add grant references for fbfront/kbdfront

[Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>]

On 01/07/2011 01:28 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 17:55 +0000, 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.
> 
> Are there matching backend patches somewhere?
> 
> Ian.
> 

Not yet, although it shouldn't be hard to modify the Xen backend
to use grants. This has been tested using a custom display server.

>>>>
>>>> [PATCH 1/3] xen-fbfront: Read width/height from backend
>>>> 	Note: Not directly related, just used by display server.
>>>> [PATCH 2/3] xen-fbfront: Use grant references when requested
>>>> [PATCH 3/3] xen-kbdfront: Add grant reference for shared page
>>>>
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