Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 9 authors, 2015-08-04

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/8] xen: Use the correctly the Xen memory terminologies

From: Chris Christopher Brand <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-28 19:40:09
Also in: linux-fbdev, linux-input, linux-scsi, linuxppc-dev, lkml, netdev

Based on include/xen/mm.h [1], Linux is mistakenly using MFN when GFN is meant,
I suspect this is because the first support for Xen was for PV. This brough some
Typo : "brought"
Perhaps "resulted in" would be better ?
misimplementation of helpers on ARM and make the developper confused the expected behavior.
Typo: "developer".
I'd also suggest "...and confused developers about the...".

[...]
For clarity and avoid new confusion, replace any reference of mfn into gnf in any helpers used by PV drivers.
Typo : "gfn"
I'd suggest "...replace any reference to mfn with gfn..."

[...]

Chris
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