Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753951AbbHEQKv (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2015 12:10:51 -0400 Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:43221 "EHLO SMTP02.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753906AbbHEQKt (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2015 12:10:49 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.15,618,1432598400"; d="scan'208";a="291657552" Message-ID: <55C23476.8020104@citrix.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 17:06:14 +0100 From: Julien Grall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Vrabel , CC: , Boris Ostrovsky , , , Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/20] xen: Introduce a function to split a Linux page into Xen page References: <1436474552-31789-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@citrix.com> <1436474552-31789-3-git-send-email-julien.grall@citrix.com> <55B205FB.5080209@citrix.com> <55B20B56.7020605@citrix.com> <55B20F1F.60902@citrix.com> <55C21DF3.2090201@citrix.com> <55C230C9.7060506@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: <55C230C9.7060506@citrix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DLP: MIA1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2152 Lines: 65 On 05/08/15 16:50, David Vrabel wrote: >>>>> Also perhaps make it >>>>> >>>>> int xen_for_each_gfn(struct page *page, >>>>> xen_gfn_fn_t fn, void *data); >>>> >>>> gfn standing for Guest Frame Number right? >>> >>> Yes. This suggestion is just changing the name to make it more obvious >>> what it does. >> >> Thinking more about this suggestion. The callback (fn) is getting a 4K >> PFN in parameter and not a GFN. > > I would like only APIs that deal with 64 KiB PFNs and 4 KiB GFNs. I > think having a 4 KiB "PFN" is confusing. I agree with that. Note that helpers splitting Linux page in 4K chunk such as gnttab_for_each_grant (see patch #3) and this one may still have the concept of 4K "PFN" for internal purpose. > Can you rework this xen_for_each_gfn() to pass GFNs to fn, instead? I will do. > >> This is because the balloon code seems to require having a 4K PFN in >> hand in few places. For instance XENMEM_populate_physmap and >> HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping. > > Ug. For an auto-xlate guest frame-list needs GFNs, for a PV guest > XENMEM_populate_physmap does want PFNs (so it can fill in the M2P). > > Perhaps in increase_reservation: > > if (auto-xlate) > frame_list[i] = page_to_gfn(page); > /* Or whatever per-GFN loop you need. */ > else > frame_list[i] = page_to_pfn(page); > > update_va_mapping takes VAs (e.g, __va(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) could be > page_to_virt(page). I though about a similar approach but I wanted to keep the code generic, i.e support the splitting even for non auto-translated guest. Hence the implementation xen_apply_to_page. Anyway, I will see to do what you suggest. > Sorry for being so picky here, but the inconsistency of terminology and > API misuse is already confusing and I don't want to see it get worse. No worry, I'm happy to rework this code to be able to drop the 4K PFN concept. Regards, -- Julien Grall -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/