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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 07/16] x86/xen: make vcpu_info part of xenhost_t
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On 09.05.19 19:25, Ankur Arora wrote:
> Abstract out xen_vcpu_id probing via (*probe_vcpu_id)(). Once that is
> availab,e the vcpu_info registration happens via the VCPUOP hypercall.
>
> Note that for the nested case, there are two vcpu_ids, and two vcpu_info
> areas, one each for the default xenhost and the remote xenhost.
> The vcpu_info is used via pv_irq_ops, and evtchn signaling.
>
> The other VCPUOP hypercalls are used for management (and scheduling)
> which is expected to be done purely in the default hypervisor.
> However, scheduling of L1-guest does imply L0-Xen-vcpu_info switching,
> which might mean that the remote hypervisor needs some visibility
> into related events/hypercalls in the default hypervisor.

Another candidate for dropping due to layering violation, I guess.


Juergen

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