Re: [Xen-devel] Hypercall interface changes for PAE

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 May 2005, at 19:21, Keir Fraser wrote:

> The downside of this approach is that the C declarations of 
> mmu_update_t, update_va_mapping, etc are different on 32-bit PAE 
> builds. But only low-level guest code will touch those interfaces 
> anyway, and there is unlikely to be code sharing between PAE and 
> non-PAE at that level.
> What do you think?
Actually, we could export intpte_t and physaddr_t at the guest 
interface and declare mmu_update_t and friends in terms of those 
typedefs. This would also avoid needing different wrapper 
implementations of those hypercalls within Xen itself. Neat. :-)
 -- Keir


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