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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable tmem functionality for PV on HVM
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:39:25 +0100
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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