Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support | From | Juergen Gross <> | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:36:37 +0200 |
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On 15.07.19 14:32, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 01:37:37PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: >> The long term plan has been to replace Xen PV guests by PVH. The first >> victim of that plan are now 32-bit PV guests, as those are used only >> rather seldom these days. Xen on x86 requires 64-bit support and with >> Grub2 now supporting PVH officially since version 2.04 there is no >> need to keep 32-bit PV guest support alive in the Linux kernel. >> Additionally Meltdown mitigation is not available in the kernel running >> as 32-bit PV guest, so dropping this mode makes sense from security >> point of view, too. >> >> Juergen Gross (2): >> x86/xen: remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support >> x86/paravirt: remove 32-bit support from PARAVIRT_XXL > > Hooray! >
Always a pleasure to cheer the community up by sending Xen patches. :-D
Juergen
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