xen/public: add comment to struct xen_mem_acquire_resource

Commit 7c7f7e8fba changed xen/include/public/memory.h in an incompatible
way. Unfortunately the changed parts were already in use in the Linux
kernel, so an update of the header in the kernel would result in a build
breakage.

As the change of above commit was in a section originally meant to be not
stable, it was the usage in the kernel which was wrong.

Add a comment to the modified struct for not reusing the now removed bit,
in order to avoid kernels using it stumbling over a possible new meaning
of the bit.

In case the kernel is updating to a new version of the header, the wrong
use case must be removed first.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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Juergen Gross authored and Jan Beulich committed 2022-02-25 11:10:19 +01:00
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@@ -662,6 +662,13 @@ struct xen_mem_acquire_resource {
* two calls.
*/
uint32_t nr_frames;
/*
* Padding field, must be zero on input.
* In a previous version this was an output field with the lowest bit
* named XENMEM_rsrc_acq_caller_owned. Future versions of this interface
* will not reuse this bit as an output with the field being zero on
* input.
*/
uint32_t pad;
/*
* IN - the index of the initial frame to be mapped. This parameter
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