Re: [Xen-devel] GNTCOPY_can_fail ???

[Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/06/2013 10:23, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just noticed that apart from getting defined, this is completely
> unused in both Xen and Linux. Does anyone know what the
> intended purpose was? Unless we implement that intention,
> shouldn't we at least mark it in the public header as unusable
> at present, or even remove the visibility of the definitions for
> new enough __XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION__?

I think the definition leaked in from early work on xenpaging, on the guest
side, and never actually been used by a non-developer's guest kernel. I'd be
happy to see it removed completely and unconditionally.

 -- Keir

> Jan
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