Re: [Xen-devel] Tiny patch for 2004 04 08 unstable tarball. arch/xen/kernel/time.c

[Adam Heath <doogie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:

> > Tiny patch. :)  Compile fails if you turn off priviliged access in the
> > xenolinux config.
>
> Cheers.
>
> There's an argument for doing away with the option
> altogether. Xen enforces the protection, so it doesn't matter
> whether untrusted domains are compiled with
> CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST or not. The amount of code that this
> option compiles out is likely less than 1KB, so it's probably
> not worth having.
>
> However, we should make sure that the domain hides the various
> proc files if it has insufficient privilege from Xen, so as to
> avoid confusing users.

In that case, the config option should be used for that.

If it's set, don't even bother checking whether you can do privledged ops, and
just assume you can't; also, don't bother creating the proc files.

If it *is* set, then you still have to check, as the instance may not have
been given the nescessary privs.


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