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

Chris (Christopher) Brand chris.brand at broadcom.com
Wed Jul 29 05:39:57 AEST 2015


> 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...".

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> 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..."

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Chris



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