Re: [PATCH 03/10] xen/hypercall: Make xen_remove_from_physmap thesame on 64/32 builds.

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Mon Oct 29 2012 - 10:45:53 EST


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 19:12 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > By making the structure exactly the same size and with the same
> > offsets on 64 and 32-bit builds we are future-proofing ourselves.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/xen/interface/memory.h | 7 ++++++-
> > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/xen/interface/memory.h b/include/xen/interface/memory.h
> > index 8beebdb..6b07b54 100644
> > --- a/include/xen/interface/memory.h
> > +++ b/include/xen/interface/memory.h
> > @@ -253,9 +253,14 @@ extern spinlock_t xen_reservation_lock;
> > struct xen_remove_from_physmap {
> > /* Which domain to change the mapping for. */
> > domid_t domid;
> > -
> > + /* To be used in the future if need to. */
> > + uint8_t reserved[6];
> > /* GPFN of the current mapping of the page. */
> > xen_pfn_t gpfn;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> > + /* No need to do that on ARM as xen_pfn_t is always 8 bytes. */
> > + uint8_t __pad[4];
> > +#endif
>
> I'm not sure if this last one is necessary since this isn't a struct
> which would get used in an array. I guess it doesn't hurt though.

OK, we can always remove it later on?
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