[Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/8] xen: Use the correctly the Xen memory terminologies

Julien Grall julien.grall at citrix.com
Wed Jul 29 04:27:07 PDT 2015


Hi Chris,

On 28/07/15 20:39, Chris (Christopher) Brand wrote:
>> Based on include/xen/mm.h [1], Linux is mistakenly using MFN when GFN is meant,
>> I suspect this is because the first support for Xen was for PV. This brough some
> Typo : "brought"
> Perhaps "resulted in" would be better ?
> 
>> misimplementation of helpers on ARM and make the developper confused the expected behavior.
> Typo: "developer".
> I'd also suggest "...and confused developers about the...".
> 
> [...]
> 
>> For clarity and avoid new confusion, replace any reference of mfn into gnf in any helpers used by PV drivers.
> Typo : "gfn"
> I'd suggest "...replace any reference to mfn with gfn..."
> 
> [...]

Thanks for telling me the typoes. I will fix it in the next version of
this series.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall



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