From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
konrad.wilk@oracle.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roger.pau@citrix.com,
x86@kernel.org, GLin@suse.coma, bblanco@plumgrid.com,
pmonclus@plumgrid.com, bp@suse.de, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 17:28:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B3D070.9000607@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160204205721.GJ12481@wotan.suse.de>
On 02/04/2016 03:57 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Ah, well here lies the issue. As per hpa subarch was not designed for defining
> a hypervisor, but rather at least subarch PC (0) [should be used if the
> hardware is] "enumerable using standard PC mechanisms (PCI, ACPI) and doesn't
> need a special boot flow". Does that follow the definition of HVMlite?
Yes. HVMlite is going to use baremetal boot flow.
> OK great. That still means the code will run, and if we can avoid that
> why not. I am fine with annotating this as future work to help. Let me
> then ask as well, how about the rest of the code during and after
> startup_32() and startup_64() -- are we sure that's all safe ?
I can't be sure, all I can say is that so far I haven't seen any problems.
-boris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-04 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-01 15:38 [PATCH v2 00/11] HVMlite domU support Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] xen/hvmlite: Import hvmlite-related Xen public interfaces Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:06 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:06 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:39 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:39 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-02 17:19 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 17:19 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-03 18:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-03 20:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-03 20:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-03 23:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-03 23:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04 19:54 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 20:57 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04 20:57 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04 22:28 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 22:28 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2016-02-04 19:54 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-03 20:52 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-03 20:52 ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2016-02-03 23:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04 0:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04 0:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04 0:51 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-04 0:51 ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2016-02-04 23:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04 23:10 ` [Xen-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-05 22:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-05 22:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-03 23:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-03 18:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-24 20:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-24 20:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 13:21 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 13:21 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 13:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 13:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 13:54 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 13:54 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 14:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 14:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 14:42 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 14:42 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 15:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 15:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 15:48 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 15:48 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-26 10:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-26 10:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 17:24 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-04-25 17:24 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] xen/hvmlite: Initialize HVMlite kernel Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-17 20:08 ` [Xen-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-17 20:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] xen/hvmlite: Allow HVMlite guests delay initializing grant table Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:13 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:13 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:49 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:49 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-03 18:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-03 18:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] xen/hvmlite: HVMlite guests always have PV devices Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] xen/hvmlite: Prepare cpu_initialize_context() routine for HVMlite SMP Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:16 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:16 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] xen/hvmlite: Initialize context for secondary VCPUs Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:21 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:21 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 10:07 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-04 10:07 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-04 12:58 ` [Xen-devel] " Doug Goldstein
2016-02-04 19:08 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 19:08 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 12:58 ` Doug Goldstein
2016-02-02 16:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] xen/hvmlite: Extend APIC operations for HVMlite guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 10:04 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-04 10:04 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-04 12:14 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-02-04 12:14 ` [Xen-devel] " Roger Pau Monné
2016-02-04 14:01 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 14:01 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] xen/hvmlite: Use x86's default timer init " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:27 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:27 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-02 17:01 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 17:01 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] xen/hvmlite: Boot secondary CPUs Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 10:38 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-04 13:51 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 13:51 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 10:38 ` David Vrabel
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] xen/hvmlite: Enable CPU on-/offlining Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
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