Port-xen archive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]

Re: [patch] M2P/P2M abstraction



Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> M2P and P2M mechanisms are rather MD than MI. AFAIK, for Xen, the
> xpmap_phys_to_machine_mapping/machine_to_phys is x86 specific.
> 
> This small patch [1] makes use of abstraction macros for the M2P
> translation, so that Xen drivers do not use M2P/P2M arrays directly.
> 
> Compile tested against XEN{2,3}_DOM{0,U}, and their PAE version. Please
> review.
> 
> [1] http://www.netbsd.org/~jym/p2m.diff

The changes in the patch are mechanical. The diff on itself is ok for
me, but if you intend to introduce an MI API, then it needs to have
an unique namespace prefix.

Christoph


Home | Main Index | Thread Index | Old Index