[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 19/20] xen/privcmd: Add support for Linux 64KB page granularity

David Vrabel david.vrabel at citrix.com
Thu Aug 20 03:08:56 PDT 2015


On 07/08/15 17:46, Julien Grall wrote:
> The hypercall interface (as well as the toolstack) is always using 4KB
> page granularity. When the toolstack is asking for mapping a series of
> guest PFN in a batch, it expects to have the page map contiguously in
> its virtual memory.
> 
> When Linux is using 64KB page granularity, the privcmd driver will have
> to map multiple Xen PFN in a single Linux page.
> 
> Note that this solution works on page granularity which is a multiple of
> 4KB.

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>

David



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