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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 12/16] xen/mm: Switch common/memory.c to use typesafe MFN

To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:26:55 +0000
Cc: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:27:05 +0000
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 02:02:55PM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> A new helper copy_mfn_to_guest is introduced to easily to copy a MFN to
> the guest memory.
> 
> Not functional change intended

Is there a reason to not make all guest accessors tyep-safe instead?

Wei.

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