From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable tmem functionality for PV on HVM guests
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:39:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C845625D.181DB%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a7f1ebf4-698e-42f0-9d03-70d77efdde2d@default>
On 21/06/2010 18:14, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> wrote:
> (Keir, please also apply for 4.0.1 if it's not too late.)
>
> Enable tmem functionality for PV on HVM guests. Guest kernel
> must still be tmem-enabled to use this functionality (e.g.
> won't work for Windows), but upstream Linux tmem (aka
> cleancache and frontswap) patches apply cleanly on top
> of PV on HVM patches.
>
> Also, fix up some ASSERTS and code used only when bad guest
> mfns are passed to tmem. Previous code could crash Xen
> if a buggy/malicious guest passes bad gmfns.
This patch doesn't apply to xen-unstable tip.
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-21 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-21 17:14 [PATCH] enable tmem functionality for PV on HVM guests Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-21 17:39 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2010-06-21 17:54 ` Dan Magenheimer
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