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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.6] xen/public: arm: Use __typeof__ rather than typeof



>>> On 28.10.15 at 16:44, <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 27/10/15 08:05, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 26.10.15 at 19:08, <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> However, IIUC, the get_xen_guest_handle is only exposed to the tools and
>>> therefore possible to modify it in order to pass the type. Am I wrong?
>>> FWIW, I haven't seen any usage in the tools directory.
>> 
>> Indeed. Rather than worrying about getting it right, let's just drop it.
>> Patch sent a minute ago.
> 
> On the same note, is there any reason we want to expose
> XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_PARAM to the guest?
> 
> It has been introduced with ARM to represent a guest pointer as an
> hypercall pointer and only used within Xen to differentiate 32bit vs
> 64bit build.

I don't see a need for it to be exposed, but I'd like the ARM folks
who introduced it (Stefano iirc) confirm that.

Jan


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