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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: "Jun Nakajima" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	"Kevin Tian" <kevin.tian@intel.com>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] x86 / vmx: make apic_access_mfn type-safe
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:05:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9f7ef14-2dc5-4a40-1a3c-aca2aac3b90a@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200121120009.1767-2-pdurrant@amazon.com>

On 21/01/2020 12:00, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Use mfn_t rather than unsigned long and change previous tests against 0 to
> tests against INVALID_MFN (also introducing initialization to that value).
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>

I'm afraid this breaks the idempotency of vmx_free_vlapic_mapping(),
which gets in the way of domain/vcpu create/destroy cleanup.

Its fine to use 0 as the sentinel.

~Andrew

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-22 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-21 12:00 [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] purge free_shared_domheap_page() Paul Durrant
2020-01-21 12:00 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] x86 / vmx: make apic_access_mfn type-safe Paul Durrant
2020-01-22  2:51   ` Tian, Kevin
2020-01-22 14:05   ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2020-01-22 15:48     ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-21 12:00 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] x86 / hvm: add domain_relinquish_resources() method Paul Durrant
2020-01-22 15:50   ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-22 15:56     ` Durrant, Paul
2020-01-22 16:00       ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-22 16:02         ` Durrant, Paul
2020-01-21 12:00 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] x86 / vmx: use a 'normal' domheap page for APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE Paul Durrant
2020-01-21 12:29   ` Julien Grall
2020-01-21 12:37     ` Durrant, Paul
2020-01-22  3:19   ` Tian, Kevin
2020-01-22 11:25     ` Durrant, Paul
2020-01-22 16:17   ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-22 16:27     ` Durrant, Paul

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