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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
To: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, keir.xen@gmail.com,
	eddie.dong@intel.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com
Subject: Re: [V8 PATCH 5/8] pvh dom0: Add and remove foreign pages
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:40:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5344187E.3010601@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140408141840.GD27003@deinos.phlegethon.org>

On 04/08/2014 03:18 PM, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 15:07 +0100 on 08 Apr (1396966037), Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 08.04.14 at 16:01, <tim@xen.org> wrote:
>>> At 08:36 +0100 on 08 Apr (1396942615), Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 08.04.14 at 03:11, <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 07:57:56 +0100
>>>>> "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In the end I think we'll want to make them all report proper error
>>>>>> codes...
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, how about the following patch then? If it's OK, I'd like to submit
>>>>> independently.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I just now stumbled across this oddity too. Looks generally
>>>> like what we want
>>>
>>> While in general I like this, I'm worried about inverting the sense of
>>> the return code -- that seems like setting a trap for ourselves with
>>> backporting patches past this one.
>>>
>>> I'd be inclined to change the name of the function as a safety catch,
>>> though I can't immediately think of a good new name for set_p2m_entry.
>>> Maybe just truncate it to set_p2m()?
>>
>> That could mean a different thing. How about p2m_set_entry(),
>> at once matching most other P2M functions using p2m_ as their
>> prefix.
>
> Sure.  I think the current implementation in p2m_pt might be using
> that name, but it could be given a more meaningful name at the same
> time.

Ack to the rename.

  -George

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-08 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-22  1:39 [V8 PATCH 0/8] pvh dom0 Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-22  1:39 ` [V8 PATCH 1/8] pvh dom0: move some pv specific code to static functions Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-22  1:39 ` [V8 PATCH 2/8] pvh dom0: construct_dom0 changes Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-26 19:05   ` George Dunlap
2014-03-27 10:14     ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-27 10:55       ` George Dunlap
2014-03-27 11:03         ` George Dunlap
2014-03-27 15:04         ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-27 15:30           ` Tim Deegan
2014-04-05  0:53             ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-04-07  7:30               ` Jan Beulich
2014-04-07  9:27               ` George Dunlap
2014-03-22  1:39 ` [V8 PATCH 3/8] pvh dom0: Introduce p2m_map_foreign Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-24  9:00   ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-27 12:29   ` George Dunlap
2014-04-05  0:57     ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-22  1:39 ` [V8 PATCH 4/8] pvh dom0: make xsm_map_gmfn_foreign available for x86 Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-25 17:53   ` Daniel De Graaf
2014-03-22  1:39 ` [V8 PATCH 5/8] pvh dom0: Add and remove foreign pages Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-24  9:26   ` Jan Beulich
2014-04-05  1:17     ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-04-07  6:57       ` Jan Beulich
2014-04-08  1:11         ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-04-08  7:36           ` Jan Beulich
2014-04-08 14:01             ` Tim Deegan
2014-04-08 14:07               ` Jan Beulich
2014-04-08 14:18                 ` Tim Deegan
2014-04-08 15:40                   ` George Dunlap [this message]
2014-04-11  1:33     ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-04-11  8:02       ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-22  1:39 ` [V8 PATCH 6/8] pvh dom0: allow get_pg_owner for translated domains Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-24  9:31   ` Jan Beulich
2014-04-01 14:31     ` George Dunlap
2014-04-05  0:59       ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-22  1:39 ` [V8 PATCH 7/8] pvh dom0: add check for pvh in vioapic_range Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-24  9:34   ` Jan Beulich
2014-04-01 14:40     ` George Dunlap
2014-04-01 15:09       ` Jan Beulich
2014-04-05  1:00         ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-04-07  6:59           ` Jan Beulich
2014-04-07  9:28             ` George Dunlap
2014-04-08  1:00               ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-04-08  8:21                 ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-22  1:39 ` [V8 PATCH 8/8] pvh dom0: add opt_dom0pvh to setup.c Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-24  9:35   ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-24  8:57 ` [V8 PATCH 0/8] pvh dom0 Jan Beulich
2014-03-24 21:36   ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-03-28 17:36 ` Roger Pau Monné
2014-03-28 19:48   ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-04-01 16:04 ` George Dunlap
2014-04-02  1:22   ` Mukesh Rathor

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