compat: add a little bit of description to xlat.lst

Requested-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
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# There are a few fundamentally different strategies for handling compat
# (sub-)hypercalls:
#
# 1) Wrap a translation layer around the native hypercall. Structures involved
# in this model should use translation (xlat) macros generated by adding
# !-prefixed lines here.
#
# 2) Compile the entire hypercall function a second time, arranging for the
# compat structures to get used in place of the native ones. There are no xlat
# macros involved here, all that's needed are correctly translated structures.
#
# 3) Adhoc translation, which may or may not involve adding entries here.
#
# 4) Any mixture of the above.
#
# In all models any structures re-used in their native form should have
# ?-mark prefixed lines added here, with the resulting checking macros invoked
# somewhere in the code handling the hypercall or its translation.
#
# First column indicator:
# ! - needs translation
# ? - needs checking
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