> -----Original Message----- > From: Xen-devel <xen-devel-boun...@lists.xenproject.org> On Behalf Of > Jürgen Groß > Sent: 09 December 2019 11:52 > To: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>; Durrant, Paul > <pdurr...@amazon.com> > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Boris Ostrovsky > <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com>; Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>; > linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] xen/interface: don't discard pending > work in FRONT/BACK_RING_ATTACH > > On 09.12.19 12:41, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 02:01:22PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote: > >> Currently these macros will skip over any requests/responses that are > >> added to the shared ring whilst it is detached. This, in general, is > not > >> a desirable semantic since most frontend implementations will > eventually > >> block waiting for a response which would either never appear or never > be > >> processed. > >> > >> NOTE: These macros are currently unused. BACK_RING_ATTACH(), however, > will > >> be used in a subsequent patch. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurr...@amazon.com> > > > > Those headers come from Xen, and should be modified in Xen first and > > then imported into Linux IMO. > > In theory, yes. But the Xen variant doesn't contain the ATTACH macros. >
OOI do we have a policy about this? Re-importing headers into Linux wholesale is always slightly painful because of interdependencies and style checking issues. Paul > > Juergen > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel