From 215f2a9aa994541259aa2c271158a173a7f099ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 09:54:15 +0100 Subject: libxl: add a comment re the memory management API instability Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson Acked-by: Ian Campbell Committed-by: Ian Campbell --- tools/libxl/libxl.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools') diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl.h b/tools/libxl/libxl.h index cc74e1359f..c614d6fdb9 100644 --- a/tools/libxl/libxl.h +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.h @@ -567,6 +567,17 @@ int libxl_domain_core_dump(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, int libxl_domain_setmaxmem(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, uint32_t target_memkb); int libxl_set_memory_target(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, int32_t target_memkb, int relative, int enforce); int libxl_get_memory_target(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, uint32_t *out_target); + + +/* + * WARNING + * This memory management API is unstable even in Xen 4.2. + * It has a numer of deficiencies and we intend to replace it. + * + * The semantics of these functions should not be relied on to be very + * coherent or stable. We will however endeavour to keep working + * existing programs which use them in roughly the same way as libxl. + */ /* how much free memory in the system a domain needs to be built */ int libxl_domain_need_memory(libxl_ctx *ctx, libxl_domain_build_info *b_info, uint32_t *need_memkb); @@ -577,6 +588,7 @@ int libxl_wait_for_free_memory(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, uint32_t memory_k /* wait for the memory target of a domain to be reached */ int libxl_wait_for_memory_target(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, int wait_secs); + int libxl_vncviewer_exec(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, int autopass); int libxl_console_exec(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, int cons_num, libxl_console_type type); /* libxl_primary_console_exec finds the domid and console number -- cgit v1.2.3