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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] add HVMOP_get_mem_type hvmop

To: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] add HVMOP_get_mem_type hvmop
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:23:42 +0100
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At 10:00 +0100 on 17 May (1305626451), Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, Tim Deegan wrote:
> 
> > At 11:34 +0100 on 04 May (1304508849), Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > Add a new hvmop HVMOP_get_mem_type to return the hvmmem_type_t for the
> > > given pfn. Pages which are neither ram or mmio will be HVMMEM_mmio_dm.
> > > This interface enables the crash kernel to skip ballooned pages.
> > 
> > Applied; thanks.
> 
> Tim.
> 
> if this new hvmop interface is now finalized, could this be applied to
> 4.1 as well, and the header file change applied to the linux-2.6.18.hg
> and also mainline?

That's a question for Keir, who maintains the 4.1 tree.  But we don't
usually backport new features to the older trees. 

Tim.

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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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