From: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
To: Oleksandr <olekstysh@gmail.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>,
Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>,
Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>,
Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>,
Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] xen/arm: Add handling of extended regions for Dom0
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:52:52 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e832477f-4ed7-4f12-90aa-ebc1843cdc36@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3fd1198-15bf-6c05-fe5d-ea29255f1dfe@gmail.com>
On 16/09/2021 00:10, Oleksandr wrote:
>>> + * The extended regions will be prevalidated by the memory hotplug path
>>> + * in Linux which requires for any added address range to be within
>>> maximum
>>> + * possible addressable physical memory range for which the linear
>>> mapping
>>> + * could be created.
>>> + * For 48-bit VA space size the maximum addressable range are:
>>> + * 0x40000000 - 0x80003fffffff
>> Please don't make Linux-specific comments in Xen code for interfaces
>> that are supposed to be OS-agnostic.
>
> You are right. I just wanted to describe where these magic numbers come
> from.
> Someone might question why, for example, "0 ... max_gpaddr" can't be
> used. I will move
> that Linux-specific comments to the commit message to keep some
> justification of these numbers.
Please keep some rationale in the code. This is a lot easier to
understand the code without having to play the git blame game.
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-17 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-10 18:18 [PATCH V2 0/3] Add handling of extended regions (safe ranges) on Arm (Was "xen/memory: Introduce a hypercall to provide unallocated space") Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2021-09-10 18:18 ` [PATCH V2 1/3] xen: Introduce "gpaddr_bits" field to XEN_SYSCTL_physinfo Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2021-09-16 14:49 ` Jan Beulich
2021-09-16 15:43 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-16 15:47 ` Jan Beulich
2021-09-16 16:05 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-10 18:18 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] xen/arm: Add handling of extended regions for Dom0 Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2021-09-14 0:55 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-15 19:10 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-15 21:21 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-16 20:57 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-16 21:30 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-17 7:28 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-17 14:08 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-17 15:52 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2021-09-17 20:13 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-17 15:48 ` Julien Grall
2021-09-17 19:51 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-17 21:56 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-17 22:37 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-19 14:34 ` Julien Grall
2021-09-19 20:18 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-20 23:21 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-21 18:14 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-21 22:00 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-22 18:25 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-22 20:50 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-23 10:10 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-20 23:55 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-21 19:43 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-22 18:18 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-22 21:05 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-23 10:11 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-18 16:59 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-23 10:41 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-23 16:38 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-23 17:44 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-19 14:00 ` Julien Grall
2021-09-19 17:59 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-10 18:18 ` [PATCH V2 3/3] libxl/arm: Add handling of extended regions for DomU Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2021-09-16 22:35 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-09-20 20:07 ` Oleksandr
2021-09-21 17:35 ` Oleksandr
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