| |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Remove physmap page upon granttab xfer
On 29/5/08 11:02, "Isaku Yamahata" <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> After the grant transfer operation completes the page no longer belongs to
>> the backend domain. Thus, for absolute safety and isolation, the page must
>> be removed from the backend domain's IOMMU mappings before completion of the
>> grant transfer operation. Actually we should be flushing host CPU TLBs too.
>
> Thank you for explanation.
> The patch breaks ia64 granttab xfer breakage so that it have to be fixed.
> However the operation is now obsoleted one, so I don't want to make
> big effort to fix.
> What do you think about the following patch?
How does grant transfer work on ia64? Looking at netback I don't even see
how the 'hole' left by transfer of the old page gets filled by mapping in a
new page.
-- Keir
_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
|
|
|
| |
|
Home