[Xen-devel] xc_map_foreign_range usage

["Alex V" <allex.vong@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am learning source of Xen and decided to learn it by writing some code.

So I am trying to map some data from domU to dom0 using  xc_map_foreign_range.
It seemed pretty straightforward but in xenctrl.h it's stated that:
--------------------------------------------
In Linux, the ring queue for the control channel is accessible by
mapping the shared_info_frame (from xc_domain_getinfo()) + 2048.  The
structure stored there is of type control_if_t.
---------------------------------------------

which confuses me since I could not find info about this structure and
therefore cast ret value to it.

All I need is basically just to have an access from dom0 to the buffer
I allocated at domU. Could you tell me where I am able to see simple
example which deals with that?

Assume I already malloc'ed some buffer at domU and granted access to
it (have a reference number - ref)

Then in dom0 I map it using all info

void* my_addr = xc_map_foreign_range(handle, dom_id, rw, ref);

How can I change/read the buffer I granted access to dom0 previously?
I casted it to unsigned long and got an address (I suppose) but
casting it to (char*) and trying to print it out caused an segfault.

Any comments/advices would be highly appreciated.

Best regards,
Al.V.

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