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RE: [PATCH 2/2] xen/arm: Handle reserved heap pages in boot and heap allocator


  • To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH 2/2] xen/arm: Handle reserved heap pages in boot and heap allocator

Hi Julien,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
> > Thanks for the clarification. I checked the code and found the xenheap_*
> > variables are:
> > xenheap_virt_start, xenheap_virt_end, xenheap_mfn_start,
> > xenheap_mfn_end, xenheap_base_pdx.
> >
> > For clarification, do we need to change all of them to directmap_*?
> 
> Good question.

:))) Thanks for your patience!

> 
> >
> > A pure renaming should be easy (and I guess also safe), but maybe I am
> > overthinking because arm32 also uses xenheap_virt_end,
> xenheap_mfn_start
> > and xenheap_mfn_end. These variables refer to the real xenheap, I am not
> > sure renaming these would reduce the readability for arm32.
> 
> So on arm32, only the xenheap is direct mapped today. So I think it
> would be fine to switch the name to "directmap_*". For extra clarify we
> could add an alias for arm32 between "xenheap_*" and "directmap_*".

Sounds good to me, I think I will try to add a separate patch for purely
renaming all above-mentioned variables, then another patch for creating the
alias for arm32. Hope you would fine with this plan.

Kind regards,
Henry

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Julien Grall

 


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