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SubjectRe: [patch 2] Xen core patch : arch_free_page return value
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:51:12PM +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> Having pulled the latest snapshot, it's good to see that
> remap_pfn_range has cleaned things up a bit. However, it doesn't
> solve our problem.
> In arch xen we need to use a different function for mapping MMIO
> or BIOS pages, which is the /dev/mem behaviour we need to
> support.
> I'm not sure we can do this without changing the call in mem.c,
> at least not without adding an extra hook inside remap_pfn_range
> that allows us to use an alternative to set_pte e.g. slow_set_pte
> that tries to figure out whether the pfn is real memory or
> not. Personally I think the mem.c #ifdef is cleaner and more
> robust.
> I'm not sure I understand the issue about io_remap_page_range
> having an architecture-specific calling convention. Please can
> you enlighten me.

On some architectures it takes 5 arguments, and on others, 6.
It won't compile everywhere without an #ifdef.


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