[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] enable tmem functionality for PV on HVM guests

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/06/2010 18:14, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> 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



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