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Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] xen/riscv: setup fixmap mapping



Hi Julien,

On Sun, 2024-07-21 at 09:46 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> > +/* Fixmap slots */
> > +#define FIX_PMAP_BEGIN (0) /* Start of PMAP */
> > +#define FIX_PMAP_END (FIX_PMAP_BEGIN + NUM_FIX_PMAP - 1) /* End of
> > PMAP */
> 
> ... here is seems to be inclusive. Furthermore if you had 32-bit
> address 
> space, it is also quite easy to have to create a region right at the
> top 
> of it. So when END is exclusive, it would become 0.
> 
> So on Arm, we decided to start to get rid of "end". I would consider
> to 
> do the same on RISC-V for new functions.
I assume that you wrote here just as an example of confusion occurs
because of using *_END but just to be clear I have to leave
FIXMAP_MAP_END as-is because it is used now by common code.

~ Oleksii




 


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