> -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com] > Sent: 25 April 2016 15:16 > To: Paul Durrant > Cc: Andrew Cooper; George Dunlap; Wei Liu; Jun Nakajima; Kevin Tian; > Zhiyuan Lv; Yu Zhang; xen-devel@lists.xen.org; Keir (Xen.org); Tim (Xen.org) > Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] x86/ioreq server(patch for 4.7): > Rename p2m_mmio_write_dm to p2m_ioreq_server. > > >>> On 25.04.16 at 16:01, <paul.durr...@citrix.com> wrote: > > The p2m type changes are also wrong. That type needs to be left alone, > > presumably, so that anything using HVMMEM_mmio_write_dm and > compiled to the > > old interface version continues to function. I think HVMMEM_ioreq_server > > needs to map to a new p2m type which should be introduced in patch #3. > > I don't understand this part: I thought it was agreed that the old > p2m type needs to go away (not the least because we're tight on > these), and use of the old HVMMEM_* type needs to result in > errors. >
I may have misunderstood. I thought we'd back-tracked on that because there's a concern that we also need to keep anything compiled against the old header working. If not then this patch should also remove that p2m type, not rename it. Paul > Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel