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

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 05:46:39PM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/02/18 17:26, Wei Liu wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Could you clarify what you mean? MFN and xen_pfn_t have different type on
> Arm. So I am not sure how you would be able to make them typesafe.

What I meant was to make copy_{to,from}_guest* type-safe. I just feel it
a bit strange you only created a wrapper for this file. I wonder why.

Note I'm just asking question. That's not necessarily a good idea to
turn them all in the end.

Wei.

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