Re: [Xen-devel] [V8 PATCH 6/8] pvh dom0: allow get_pg_owner for translated domains

[Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:31:32 +0100
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/24/2014 09:31 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>> On 22.03.14 at 02:39, <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> With pvh, a translated domain, get_pg_owner must allow foreign
> >> mappings.
> >
> > And what about HVM domains? Can you really safely drop this namely
> > with the possible use of this function in an earlier patch of this
> > series? (Without that new use, the change of course is safe
> > assuming that PV domains are never translated; I'm not sure however
> > whether this is being explicitly guaranteed anywhere these days, or
> > just "a fact").
> 
> It's probably a better idea to make it "if( !is_pv_domain() || 
> paging_mode_translate() )"  (Or some variant thereof.

Yup, thats the way it was in the earlier patches, not sure how/when
it got changed. will put pvh check back there.

thanks
mukesh


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