Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Synchronize privcmd header constants

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 05:49:57PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On 19/10/12 17:46, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> > 
> > On Oct 19, 2012, at 4:37 AM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 19/10/12 04:20, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> >>> I've had a look. The xen.org tree knows about three other OSes: minios, 
> >>> solaris and netbsd. None knows about paged out frames. None uses the 
> >>> XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_PAGEDTAB constant in domctl.h
> >>>
> >>> 1. The domctl.h constant can still go away without hurting other OSes.
> >>
> >> I've checked and NetBSD doesn't use XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_PAGEDTAB, so as
> >> Andres says I guess it's safe to remove it.
> >>
> >>> 2. It is trivial to add the PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH_* constants to the 
> >>> privcmd.h of other OSes. It can't hurt. I can do it here. Each OS Xen 
> >>> maintainer would have to take care of syncing that up in the respective 
> >>> upstream. However ...
> >>> 3. Not that trivial to teach all these OSes about paged out frames. Does 
> >>> anyone care?
> >>
> >> Well, I'm sure the NetBSD community would be interested in this, but
> >> finding someone to actually work on it is a whole different story?
> > 
> > Thanks Roger. Ian should I expect a response from Solaris?
> 
> Solaris (Illumos) is currently pretty broken, and has gone the KVM side
> as far as I know, so I wouldn't expect any response.
> 

Around one month ago there was an Illumos developer posting to xen-devel,
he was working on porting the OpenSolaris XVM (Xen hypervisor) patches to 
xen-unstable.

Also he said the current Illumos kernel still works as dom0, for him at least.

-- Pasi


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