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[Xen-devel] Re: [rfc] [patch] more 'long' in the hypervisor interface

To: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [rfc] [patch] more 'long' in the hypervisor interface
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:02:21 +0100
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On 28 Jun 2006, at 22:03, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

Hi Keir, we've come across some more users of 'long' in the hypervisor
interface: xen/include/public/memory.h. Unlike the dom0_ops, we can't
just change these to be 64 bits because 32-bit kernels use these
structures for the balloon driver.

I would like to create a new type, say "legacy_ulong_t", to cover these
cases and future instances we'll undoubtedly come across. What do you
think?

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Call them xen_ulong_t and they're fine. They're hardly legacy since there's no suitable non-legacy replacement right now. Don't forget the typedef in the other arch-*.h headers as well.

 -- Keir


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