Re: [PATCH] Xen backend support for paged out grant targets.

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Sep 14 2012 - 08:54:59 EST


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 08:19:01AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 20:45 +0100, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> > On Sep 13, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 18:28 +0100, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> > >>
> > >> * Add placeholder in array of grant table error descriptions for
> > >> unrelated error code we jump over.
> > >
> > > Why not just define it, it's listed here:
> > > http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/hypercall/include,public,grant_table.h.html#Enum_grant_status
> > Well, a) we'd be defining something no one will be using (for the
> > moment)
>
> Even if no one in the kernel is using it, having "placeholder" as an
> entry in GNTTABOP_error_msgs is just silly, even things which don't
> understand GNTST_address_too_big directly could end up looking it up
> here.
>
> > b) I would be signing-off on something unrelated.
>
> Lets take this patch instead then.
>
> 8<------------------------------------------------
>
> >From cb9daaf3029accb6d5fef58b450a625b27190429 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:10:06 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] xen: resynchronise grant table status codes with upstream
>
> Adds GNTST_address_too_big and GNTST_eagain.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

applied.

> ---
> include/xen/interface/grant_table.h | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/xen/interface/grant_table.h b/include/xen/interface/grant_table.h
> index a17d844..84a8fbf 100644
> --- a/include/xen/interface/grant_table.h
> +++ b/include/xen/interface/grant_table.h
> @@ -519,7 +519,9 @@ DEFINE_GUEST_HANDLE_STRUCT(gnttab_get_version);
> #define GNTST_no_device_space (-7) /* Out of space in I/O MMU. */
> #define GNTST_permission_denied (-8) /* Not enough privilege for operation. */
> #define GNTST_bad_page (-9) /* Specified page was invalid for op. */
> -#define GNTST_bad_copy_arg (-10) /* copy arguments cross page boundary */
> +#define GNTST_bad_copy_arg (-10) /* copy arguments cross page boundary. */
> +#define GNTST_address_too_big (-11) /* transfer page address too large. */
> +#define GNTST_eagain (-12) /* Operation not done; try again. */
>
> #define GNTTABOP_error_msgs { \
> "okay", \
> @@ -532,7 +534,9 @@ DEFINE_GUEST_HANDLE_STRUCT(gnttab_get_version);
> "no spare translation slot in the I/O MMU", \
> "permission denied", \
> "bad page", \
> - "copy arguments cross page boundary" \
> + "copy arguments cross page boundary", \
> + "page address size too large", \
> + "operation not done; try again" \
> }
>
> #endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_GRANT_TABLE_H__ */
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
>
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