From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
roger.pau@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 02/20] acpi/hvmloader: Move acpi_info initialization out of ACPI code
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 11:29:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5751A253.5020706@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5751B66902000078000F1AB8@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On 06/03/2016 10:55 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Well, first of all the definition of this structure will likely need to
> become part of the public interface, so that all consumers of it
> (hvmloader, libxc, and maybe the domain builder) can access it.
> Which then raises the question of how to deal with updates to
> that structure: We should avoid making this part of the stable
> public interface, but limiting it to Xen and tools would exclude
> hvmloader.
>
> Perhaps the follow-on thing - consumers living in far apart
> portions of the tree, and hence it's easy to forget one if an
> adjustment is being done - isn't that much different from e.g.
> touching code consumed by qemu. But then again we all know
> that some things at the xen/tools vs qemu boundary are
> pretty fragile, and I'd like to avoid such here.
>
We can add version to acpi_build_tables() call (or to struct acpi_config)?
-boris
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Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-06 1:25 [PATCH RFC 00/20] Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 01/20] hvmloader: Provide hvmloader_acpi_build_tables() Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-02 12:42 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 16:39 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 02/20] acpi/hvmloader: Move acpi_info initialization out of ACPI code Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-02 12:54 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 16:54 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-03 12:13 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-03 14:42 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-03 14:55 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-03 15:29 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 03/20] acpi/hvmloader: Initialize vm_gid data outside " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-02 13:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 17:01 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 04/20] acpi/hvmloader: Decide which SSDTs to build in hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-02 13:07 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 05/20] acpi/hvmloader: Move passthrough initialization from ACPI code Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-02 13:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 06/20] acpi/hvmloader: Collect processor and NUMA info in hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-02 14:05 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 17:18 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-03 12:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-03 14:49 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 07/20] acpi/hvmloader: Set TIS header address " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-02 14:09 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 08/20] acpi/hvmloader: Make providing IOAPIC in MADT optional Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 09/20] acpi/hvmloader: Build WAET optionally Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-02 14:32 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 10/20] acpi/hvmloader: Provide address of acpi_info as an argument to ACPI code Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-03 16:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 11/20] acpi/hvmloader: Translate all addresses when assigning addresses in ACPI tables Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 10:48 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 12/20] acpi/hvmloader: Link ACPI object files directly Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 11:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-06 14:20 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 14:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-06 14:49 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 14:57 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-06 15:31 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-06 15:41 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 13/20] acpi/hvmloader: Add stdio.h, string.h and x86.h Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 11:31 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-06 15:08 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 15:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 14/20] acpi/hvmloader: Replace mem_alloc() and virt_to_phys() with memory ops Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 12:58 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-06 15:46 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 15/20] acpi: Move ACPI code to xen/common/libacpi Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 13:05 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-06 16:09 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-07 6:20 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-07 12:24 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-06-07 14:32 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 16/20] x86/vlapic: Don't try to accept 8259 interrupt if !has_vpic() Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-03 16:14 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-03 17:50 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 17/20] x86: Allow LAPIC-only emulation_flags for HVM guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-03 16:18 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 18/20] libxc/acpi: Build ACPI tables for HVMlite guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-02 16:26 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-06-06 12:03 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-06 15:15 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-16 8:54 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-16 13:07 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 13:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-06 16:59 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-07 6:17 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-07 13:59 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-07 14:10 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-07 14:47 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-07 15:00 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 19/20] acpi: Set HW_REDUCED_ACPI in FADT if IOAPIC is not supported Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 13:38 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-06 17:31 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-07 6:06 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-07 14:02 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-07 14:12 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-07 15:17 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-07 15:41 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-08 22:04 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-09 8:13 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-06-09 8:41 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-09 14:09 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-06 1:25 ` [PATCH RFC 20/20] acpi: Make ACPI builder available to hypervisor code Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 13:48 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-09 20:10 ` [PATCH RFC 00/20] Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-05-10 7:25 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 12:40 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 16:37 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-03 7:18 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-06-03 10:08 ` Jan Beulich
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