From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Razvan Cojocaru Subject: Status of VM event patches (Was: Xen 4.6 Development Update (five months reminder, 5 WEEKS TO FREEZE)) Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:13:51 +0300 Message-ID: <5571AE9F.7030908@bitdefender.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0sMZ-0006ld-2N for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:12:47 +0000 Received: from smtp01.buh.bitdefender.com (unknown [10.17.80.75]) by mx-sr.buh.bitdefender.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D175B805B7 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2015 17:12:27 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: wei.liu2@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, edmund.h.white@intel.com, xumengpanda@gmail.com, dgolomb@seas.upenn.edu, lichong659@gmail.com, jtweaver@hawaii.edu, oleksandr.dmytryshyn@globallogic.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com, daniel.kiper@oracle.com, george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com, yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com, feng.wu@intel.com, ross.lagerwall@citrix.com, malcolm.crossley@citrix.com, tiejun.chen@intel.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com, Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com, parth.dixit@linaro.org, andrii.tseglytskyi@globallogic.com, suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com, manishjaggi.oss@gmail.com, julien.grall@citrix.com, vijay.kilari@gmail.com, ian.cambpell@citrix.com, yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, dslutz@verizon.com, cyliu@s List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 06/05/2015 04:53 PM, wei.liu2@citrix.com wrote: > * VM event patches (none) > Add support for XSETBV vm_events, > Support hybernating guests > Support for VMCALL-based vm_events > - Razvan Cojocaru A first iteration of the series has already been posted as "Vm_event memory introspection helpers", consisting of five patches: [PATCH 1/5] xen/vm_event: Added support for XSETBV events [PATCH 2/5] xen/vm_access: Support for memory-content hiding [PATCH 3/5] xen/vm_event: Support for guest-requested events [PATCH 4/5] xen/vm_event: Deny MSR writes if refused by vm_event [PATCH 5/5] xen: Write CR0, CR3 and CR4 in arch_set_info_guest() It has also been fairly discussed, and the first patched morphed into the "[PATCH V10] xen/vm_event: Clean up control-register-write vm_events and add XCR0 event" that I've posted today, and acked by Jan Beulich, Kevin Tian, Ian Campbell and Tim Deegan. The XSETBV event in question is the new XCR0 event. As soon as this patch goes in, I'll see what can be whipped into shape from the remaining patches (they depend on it) and submit V2 of the series. Thanks, Razvan