Re: Requesting for freeze exception for RMRR

["Chen, Tiejun" <tiejun.chen@intel.com>]

> Please work with maintainers to get those hvmloader patches acked or
> reviewed.

I will do.

>
>>
>> Note Jackson and Campbell also raised some comments to improve current
>> codes.
>>
>> 2. explain why it needs to be in this release (benefits).
>>
>> RMRR mechanism was broken for a long time and this makes VM always face
>> security issues. In addition, those associated devices can't be passed
>> through to VM and even result in VM crashes.
>>
>> 3. explain why it doesn't break things (risks).
>>
>> Our policy makes sure that system will work in the original way by default
>> as without the RMRR patches. And especially, this series just impacts those
>> platforms which have RMRR.
>>
>
> Your patches touch crucial path in hvmloader to build memory map. There
> is risk that it may break hvmloader even if it is turned off.
>
> I would need at least some positive test results from you to confirm if
> this feature is turned off everything works as before.
>

Could you show what sort of test you need here? I just did boot a VM 
without any RDM parameters. I just think maybe someone had this good 
experience to check this.

Thanks
Tiejun