Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752792AbdHJPIy (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:08:54 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:42613 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752466AbdHJPIx (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:08:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] introduce the Xen PV Calls frontend To: Stefano Stabellini , xen-devel@lists.xen.org References: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgross@suse.com From: Boris Ostrovsky Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:07:43 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 28 On 07/31/2017 06:57 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Hi all, > > this series introduces the frontend for the newly introduced PV Calls > procotol. > > PV Calls is a paravirtualized protocol that allows the implementation of > a set of POSIX functions in a different domain. The PV Calls frontend > sends POSIX function calls to the backend, which implements them and > returns a value to the frontend and acts on the function call. > > For more information about PV Calls, please read: > > https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvcalls.html > > This patch series only implements the frontend driver. It doesn't > attempt to redirect POSIX calls to it. The functions exported in > pvcalls-front.h are meant to be used for that. A separate patch series > will be sent to use them and hook them into the system. Stefano, Should this be reviewed or are you going to send another version? -boris