Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:37:26 +0000 | From | David Vrabel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10] Repost of PVH patches for Linux. |
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On 13/12/13 02:10, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > Hey, > > Mukesh had posted them quite a while ago - they got reviewed, acked, etc, > put in #linux-next, got patches to fix some things from folks. > > Then everybody focused on the Xen patches .. and now that is mostly > baked this is what is needed on the Linux side to make it work > with PVH. I had them based on v3.6, then merged on v3.11, then.. > > Decided to rebase all of them on v3.13-rc3 to make it easier.
In general the series is a bit of mess, early patches doing things one way (using hypercalls that no longer exist for example) and later patches fixing things up. I think this should be sorted out as it makes it too difficult to review carefully (I've only given the series a quick, initial review).
> Couple of things: > > a) the patch: > [PATCH V10 14/14] xen/pvh: vcpu info placement, load CS selector, > > could be split in three - and I think Mukesh did have a version like that. > I can do it myself and will - it should be obvious of how it will be done. > > b). Regression testing - I ran this with a Linux kernel dom0 (32 and 64) > on the latest Xen hypervisor without PVH enabled. It booted all the > guests I had: > RHEL5, SLES11, SLES12, F15, F16, F17, F18, F19, OEL5, OEL6, NetBSD PV, > FreeBSD HVM; and also 32 and 64 PV and PVHVM combination of the same > kernel (and save/restore on those). Nothing broke.
That's good to know.
David
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