On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 11:08:55AM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Julien Grall wrote: > > Based on include/xen/mm.h [1], Linux is mistakenly using MFN when GFN > > is meant, I suspect this is because the first support for Xen was for > > PV. This resulted in some misimplementation of helpers on ARM and > > confused developers about the expected behavior. > > > > For instance, with pfn_to_mfn, we expect to get an MFN based on the name. > > Although, if we look at the implementation on x86, it's returning a GFN. > > > > For clarity and avoid new confusion, replace any reference to mfn with > > gfn in any helpers used by PV drivers. The x86 code will still keep some > > reference of pfn_to_mfn but exclusively for PV (a BUG_ON has been added > > to ensure this). No changes as been made in the hypercall field, even > > though they may be invalid, in order to keep the same as the defintion > > in xen repo. > > > > Take also the opportunity to simplify simple construction such > > as pfn_to_mfn(page_to_pfn(page)) into page_to_gfn. More complex clean up > > will come in follow-up patches. > > > > [1] > > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=e758ed14f390342513405dd766e874934573e6cb > > > > Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@citrix.com> > > Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com> > > Cc: Russell King <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> > > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> > > Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> > > Cc: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com> > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> > > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> > > Cc: x...@kernel.org > > Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger....@citrix.com> > > Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> > > Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> > > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> > > Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> > > Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jbottom...@odin.com> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.com> > > Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagn...@jcrosoft.com> > > Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkei...@ti.com> > > Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org > > Cc: linux-fb...@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org > > Aside from the x86 bits: > > Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com>
Not really important, but just in case anyone waits for my ack on input bits: Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
