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

From: David Vrabel
Date: Wed Jul 29 2015 - 07:38:28 EST


On 29/07/15 12:35, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Wei,
>
> On 29/07/15 11:13, Wei Liu wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 04:02:45PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>> [...]
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
>>> index 7d50711..3b7b7c3 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
>>> @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ static void xenvif_gop_frag_copy(struct xenvif_queue *queue, struct sk_buff *skb
>>> } else {
>>> copy_gop->source.domid = DOMID_SELF;
>>> copy_gop->source.u.gmfn =
>>> - virt_to_mfn(page_address(page));
>>> + virt_to_gfn(page_address(page));
>>> }
>>> copy_gop->source.offset = offset;
>>>
>>> @@ -1284,7 +1284,7 @@ static void xenvif_tx_build_gops(struct xenvif_queue *queue,
>>> queue->tx_copy_ops[*copy_ops].source.offset = txreq.offset;
>>>
>>> queue->tx_copy_ops[*copy_ops].dest.u.gmfn =
>>> - virt_to_mfn(skb->data);
>>> + virt_to_gfn(skb->data);
>>> queue->tx_copy_ops[*copy_ops].dest.domid = DOMID_SELF;
>>> queue->tx_copy_ops[*copy_ops].dest.offset =
>>> offset_in_page(skb->data);
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> One possible improvement is to change gmfn in copy_gop to gfn as well.
>> But that's outside of netback code.
>
> The structure gnttab_copy is part of the hypervisor interface. Is it
> fine to differ on the naming between Xen and Linux?
>
> Or maybe we could do the change in the public headers in Xen repo too.
> Is it fine to do field renaming in public headers?

I think this series should not alter than Xen API.

David
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