Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory

2020-07-28 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:12:46PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > Hi Roger, > > On 28/07/2020 17:59, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 05:48:23PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 27/07/2020 10:13, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > > > > To be used in order to create

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory

2020-07-28 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:06:25PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 28/07/2020 17:59, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 05:48:23PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 27/07/2020 10:13, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > >>> To be used in order to create foreign mappings. This

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory

2020-07-28 Thread Julien Grall
Hi Roger, On 28/07/2020 17:59, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 05:48:23PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: Hi, On 27/07/2020 10:13, Roger Pau Monne wrote: To be used in order to create foreign mappings. This is based on the ZONE_DEVICE facility which is used by persistent memory

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory

2020-07-28 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 28/07/2020 17:59, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 05:48:23PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 27/07/2020 10:13, Roger Pau Monne wrote: >>> To be used in order to create foreign mappings. This is based on the >>> ZONE_DEVICE facility which is used by persistent memory

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory

2020-07-28 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 05:48:23PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > Hi, > > On 27/07/2020 10:13, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > > To be used in order to create foreign mappings. This is based on the > > ZONE_DEVICE facility which is used by persistent memory devices in > > order to create struct pages and

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory

2020-07-28 Thread Julien Grall
Hi, On 27/07/2020 10:13, Roger Pau Monne wrote: To be used in order to create foreign mappings. This is based on the ZONE_DEVICE facility which is used by persistent memory devices in order to create struct pages and kernel virtual mappings for the IOMEM areas of such devices. Note that on

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory

2020-07-27 Thread kernel test robot
Hi Roger, Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on xen-tip/linux-next] [also build test ERROR on linus/master v5.8-rc7 next-20200727] [cannot apply to linux/master] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory

2020-07-27 Thread Jürgen Groß
On 27.07.20 11:13, Roger Pau Monne wrote: To be used in order to create foreign mappings. This is based on the ZONE_DEVICE facility which is used by persistent memory devices in order to create struct pages and kernel virtual mappings for the IOMEM areas of such devices. Note that on kernels

[PATCH v3 4/4] xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory

2020-07-27 Thread Roger Pau Monne
To be used in order to create foreign mappings. This is based on the ZONE_DEVICE facility which is used by persistent memory devices in order to create struct pages and kernel virtual mappings for the IOMEM areas of such devices. Note that on kernels without support for ZONE_DEVICE Xen will