From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH XEN v7 07/29] tools: Refactor /dev/xen/gnt{dev, shr} wrappers into libxengnttab.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:40:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5671B03B.2050007@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1450269096-27598-8-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
On 16/12/15 12:31, Ian Campbell wrote:
> libxengnttab will provide a stable API and ABI for accessing the
> grant table devices.
>
> The functions are moved into the xengnt{tab,shr} namespace to make a
> clean break from libxc and avoid ambiguity regarding which interfaces
> are stable.
>
> All in-tree users are updated to use the new names.
>
> Upon request (via #define XC_WANT_COMPAT_GNTTAB_API) libxenctrl will
> provide a compat API for the old names. This is used by qemu-xen for
> the time being. qemu-xen-traditional is updated in lockstep.
>
> This leaves a few grant table related functions which go via privcmd
> (EVTCHNOP) rather than ioctls on the /dev/xen/gnt* devices in
GNTTABOP presumably?
~Andrew
> libxenctrl. Specifically:
>
> - xc_gnttab_get_version
> - xc_gnttab_map_table_v1
> - xc_gnttab_map_table_v2
> - xc_gnttab_op
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-16 18:40 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1450269007.4053.48.camel@citrix.com>
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 00/29] Begin to disentangle libxenctrl and provide some stable libraries Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 01/29] stubdom: recurse into tools/include in mk-headers-$(XEN_TARGET_ARCH) rule Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 22:13 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-01-05 14:52 ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-19 3:14 ` Wei Liu
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 02/29] tools: Refactor "xentoollog" into its own library Ian Campbell
2016-01-05 14:53 ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 03/29] tools/libxc: Remove osdep indirection for xc_evtchn Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 04/29] tools: Refactor /dev/xen/evtchn wrappers into libxenevtchn Ian Campbell
2016-01-07 10:39 ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 05/29] tools: Arrange to check public headers for ANSI compatiblity Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 06/29] tools/libxc: Remove osdep indirection for xc_gnt{shr, tab} Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 07/29] tools: Refactor /dev/xen/gnt{dev, shr} wrappers into libxengnttab Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 18:40 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2015-12-17 8:37 ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 08/29] tools/libxc: Remove osdep indirection for privcmd Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 09/29] tools: Refactor hypercall calling wrappers into libxencall Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 10/29] tools/libxc: drop xc_map_foreign_bulk_compat wrappers Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 11/29] tools: Remove xc_map_foreign_batch Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 12/29] tools: Implement xc_map_foreign_range(s) in terms of common helper Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 13/29] tools: Refactor foreign memory mapping into libxenforeignmemory Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 14/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: provide xenforeignmemory_unmap Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 15/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: use size_t for size arguments Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 16/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: Mention restrictions on fork in docs Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 17/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: Support err == NULL to map Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 18/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: pull array length argument to map forward Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 19/29] tools/libs/evtchn: Review and update doc comments Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 20/29] tools/libs: Clean up hard tabs Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 21/29] tools/libs/gnttab: Extensive updates to API documentation Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 22/29] tools/libs/call: Update some log messages to not refer to xc Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 23/29] tools/libs/call: Describe return values and error semantics for xencall* Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:38 ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 24/29] tools/libs/call: Avoid xc_memalign in netbsd and solaris backends Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 25/29] tools/libs/call: linux: touch newly allocated pages after madvise lockdown Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 26/29] tools/libs/{call, evtchn}: Document requirements around forking Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 27/29] tools/libs/*: Use O_CLOEXEC on Linux and FreeBSD Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:37 ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-12-16 13:16 ` Jan Beulich
2015-12-16 14:04 ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 14:43 ` Jan Beulich
2015-12-16 14:50 ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 28/29] tools: Update CFLAGS for qemu-xen to allow it to use new libraries Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 29/29] HACK: Update Config.mk to pull all the right bits from my xenbits trees Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 17:17 ` [PATCH XEN-BONUS v7] tools/libs/*: Introduce APIs to restrict handles to a specific domain Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 0/8] Begin to disentangle libxenctrl and provide some stable libraries Ian Campbell
[not found] ` <1450269131-27735-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 1/8] xen_console: correctly cleanup primary console on teardown Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 2/8] xen: Switch to libxenevtchn interface for compat shims Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 3/8] xen: Switch to libxengnttab " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 4/8] xen: Switch uses of xc_map_foreign_range into xc_map_foreign_pages Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 5/8] xen: Switch uses of xc_map_foreign_{pages, bulk} to use libxenforeignmemory API Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 14:39 ` Stefano Stabellini
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1512161436410.17516@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
2015-12-16 14:44 ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 6/8] xen: Use stable library interfaces when they are available Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 7/8] xen: domainbuild: reopen libxenctrl interface after forking for domain watcher Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 8/8] xen: make it possible to build without the Xen PV domain builder Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 0/4] Begin to disentangle libxenctrl and provide some stable libraries Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 1/4] qemu-xen-traditional: Use libxenevtchn Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 2/4] qemu-xen-traditional: Use libxengnttab Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 3/4] qemu-xen-traditional: Add libxencall to rpath-link Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 4/4] qemu-xen-traditional: Add libxenforeignmemory " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 0/4] Begin to disentangle libxenctrl and provide some stable libraries Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 1/4] mini-os: Include libxenevtchn with libxc Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 2/4] mini-os: Include libxengnttab " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 3/4] mini-os: Include libxencall " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 4/4] mini-os: Include libxenforeignmemory " Ian Campbell
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