... by the guest. Since this node is created largely to host the frontend areas for PV devices, all of which are fully guest-writable, there seems little point in making the top level node read-only. Other toolstacks, such as xend, did make the node writable by the guest and some PV drivers [1] relied upon this to stash information.
[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/5/html/para-virtualized_windows_drivers_guide/sect-para-virtualized_windows_drivers_guide-installing_and_configuring_the_para_virtualized_drivers-installing_the_para_virtualized_drivers Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurr...@amazon.com> --- Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Wei Liu <w...@xen.org> Cc: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com> --- tools/libxl/libxl_create.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c index 7119e95412..bc8e525821 100644 --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c @@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ retry_transaction: roperm, ARRAY_SIZE(roperm)); libxl__xs_mknod(gc, t, GCSPRINTF("%s/device", dom_path), - roperm, ARRAY_SIZE(roperm)); + rwperm, ARRAY_SIZE(rwperm)); libxl__xs_mknod(gc, t, GCSPRINTF("%s/control", dom_path), roperm, ARRAY_SIZE(roperm)); -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
