Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Allow xen tools to run in guest using 64K page granularity

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

On 25/06/15 12:23, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 11:21 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:55:34PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This small series are the only changes required in Xen in order to run a 
>>> guest
>>> using 64K page granularity on top of an unmodified Xen.
>>>
>>> I'd like feedback from maintainers tools to know if it might be worth to
>>> introduce a function xc_pagesize() replicating the behavior of getpagesize()
>>> for Xen.
>>>
>>
>> Can we start with documenting the ABI (?) for communicating between
>> guests with different page sizes?
> 
> We should certainly make it clearer what things are in terms of "Xen ABI
> page size" vs "the guest's page size" and other things.
> 
> I think we can commit these two without that though?

Ping? It would be nice to have these 2 patches for Xen 4.5. This is the
only patch necessary in Xen in order to run OS using 64KB page
granularity as DOM0.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall

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