[PATCH 20/24] xen: update xen_add_to_physmap interface

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk at oracle.com
Wed Aug 1 10:52:15 EDT 2012


On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:34:02PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Update struct xen_add_to_physmap to be in sync with Xen's version of the
> structure.
> The size field was introduced by:
> 
> changeset:   24164:707d27fe03e7
> user:        Jean Guyader <jean.guyader at eu.citrix.com>
> date:        Fri Nov 18 13:42:08 2011 +0000
> summary:     mm: New XENMEM space, XENMAPSPACE_gmfn_range
> 
> According to the comment:
> 
> "This new field .size is located in the 16 bits padding between .domid
> and .space in struct xen_add_to_physmap to stay compatible with older
> versions."
> 
> This is not true on ARM where there is not padding, but it is valid on
> X86, so introducing size is safe on X86 and it is going to fix the
> interace for ARM.

Has this been checked actually for backwards compatibility? It sounds
like it should work just fine with Xen 4.0 right?

I believe this also helps Mukesh's patches, so CC-ing him here for
his Ack.

I can put this in right now in tree if we are 100% sure its compatiblie with 4.0.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>
> ---
>  include/xen/interface/memory.h |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/xen/interface/memory.h b/include/xen/interface/memory.h
> index abbbff0..d8e33a9 100644
> --- a/include/xen/interface/memory.h
> +++ b/include/xen/interface/memory.h
> @@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ struct xen_add_to_physmap {
>      /* Which domain to change the mapping for. */
>      domid_t domid;
>  
> +    /* Number of pages to go through for gmfn_range */
> +    uint16_t    size;
> +
>      /* Source mapping space. */
>  #define XENMAPSPACE_shared_info 0 /* shared info page */
>  #define XENMAPSPACE_grant_table 1 /* grant table page */
> -- 
> 1.7.2.5



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