Re: [Xen-devel] FYI: userland <-> hypervisor parameter passing

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Nov 2005, at 18:53, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

> Ok, so all the nested pointers will be in the machine address space. I 
> think
> that will require some rework of the layering in xc_private.c, since
> functions like xc_add_mmu_update() dereference the pointers they're 
> passed.
Yes, that's true. Hopefully we can remove that, or worst case will need 
a xencomm->virtual reverse translation function....
> Perfectly reasonable. If it didn't require so much out-of-tree libxc 
> hacking,
> I would volunteer to implement this design right now.
Yeah, it's going to cause some short-term pain.

> So I think I should leave the PPC implementation as-is for now, but I 
> will be
> looking forward to post-3.0 (as I suppose we all will, for various
> reasons ;) .
:-)

 -- Keir


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