Re: [Xen-devel] Ping: [PATCH v3] x86/HVM: correct page dirty marking in hvm_map_guest_frame_rw()

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wei Liu writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Ping: [PATCH v3] x86/HVM: correct page dirty 
marking in hvm_map_guest_frame_rw()"):
> I was assuming some random third party tools make use of
> xc_shadow_control just to get the dirty bitmap of the guest.
> 
> I don't have concrete examples at hand though.  Maybe I'm too paranoid.

I would say "maybe we should change the name or prototype of the
function, to make those people get errors".

But Ian Campbell is reorganising libxc so (a) this is happening anyway
(b) an attempt to do that would probably be lost.

Ian.

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