Re: [PATCH 4/8] xen: Use the correctly the Xen memory terminologies

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On 07/29/2015 10:23 AM, Julien Grall wrote:
On 29/07/15 15:14, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
static inline unsigned long pfn_to_gfn(unsigned long pfn)
{
     if (xen_feature(XENFEAT_autotranslated_physmap))
         return pfn;
     else
         return pfn_to_mfn(pfn);
}

But you'd still say 'op.arg1.mfn = pfn_to_gfn(pfn);' in xen_do_pin()
i.e. assign GFN to MFN, right? That's what I was referring to.
Well no. I would use op.arg1.mfn = pfn_to_mfn(pfn) given that the code,
if I'm right, is only executed for PV.

mfn = pfn_to_gfn(...) was valid too because on PV is always an MFN. The
suggestion of pfn_to_mfn was just for more readability,

Right, and my comments were also not about correctness.



(In general, I am not sure a guest should ever use 'mfn' as it is purely
a hypervisor construct. Including p2m, which I think should really be
p2g as this is what we use to figure out what to stick into page tables)
I think avoid to use mfn in the hypervisor interface is out-of-scope for
this series. If we ever want to modify the Xen API in Linux, we should
do in sync with Xen to avoid inconsistency on naming.

Anyway, the oddity of mfn = pfn_to_gfn(...) is mostly contained in the
x86 specific code. I don't mind to either add pfn_to_mfn and use it or
add a comment /* PV-specific so mfn == gfn */ for every use of mfn =
pfn_to_gfn(...).

I think the former is better (even thought it adds a test)

-boris
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