RE: [PATCH v3 2/3] xen/privcmd: Add IOCTL_PRIVCMD_DM_OP

From: Paul Durrant
Date: Tue Feb 14 2017 - 04:20:51 EST


My previous reply got bounced because my tablet insisted on using HTML...

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> These need to be static. (I can fix it when committing.)

Ok, thanks.

>
> And I am still not sure about using XEN_PAGE_SIZE. There is no
> dependency in the hypervisor on buffers being page-sized, is there? If
> not, XEN_PAGE_SIZE is here just because it happens to be 4K, which is a
> reasonable value.
>
> How about just setting it to 4096?
>

I chose XEN_PAGE_SIZE because the hypercall will eventually copy in the buffer so it seemed like a reasonable value to use. If you want to just use 4096 then I am ok with that.

Paul

PS: If you want to change from XEN_PAGE_SIZE to 4096 then I assume you are happy to do this at commit and don't need me to send a v4?

>
> -boris