[Xen-devel] xen: patches for supporting sub-page and transitive grants

[ANNIE LI <annie.li@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Following two patches introduce and implement interfaces for sub-page 
and transitive grants, and they are based on linux-next branch of 
linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git(3.2.0-rc2+). Sub-page and transitive 
grants are new types of grant table V2.
Descriptions for those patches:

Through sub-page grant table interfaces, a domain can grant another 
domain access to a range of bytes within a page, and Xen will then 
prevent the grantee domain accessing outside that range.  For obvious 
reasons, it isn't possible to map these grant references, and domains 
are expected to use the grant copy hypercall instead.
Through transitive grant interfaces,  a domain can create grant 
reference which redirects to another grant reference, so that any 
attempt to access the first grant reference will be redirected to the 
second one.  This is used to implement receiver-side copy on 
inter-domain traffic: rather than copying the packet in dom0, dom0 
creates a transitive grant referencing the original transmit buffer, and 
passes that to the receiving domain.
Diff:

 drivers/xen/grant-table.c |   74 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/xen/grant_table.h |   19 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Shortlog:

Annie Li (2):
      xen/granttable: Support sub-page grants
      xen/granttable: Support transitive grants

Thanks
Annie

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