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* [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support
@ 2019-07-15 11:37 ` Juergen Gross
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Juergen Gross @ 2019-07-15 11:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel, x86, linux-kernel, virtualization
  Cc: Juergen Gross, Stefano Stabellini, Alok Kataria, Ingo Molnar,
	Borislav Petkov, Andy Lutomirski, H. Peter Anvin, Thomas Gleixner,
	Boris Ostrovsky

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

 arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S                   |  93 --------
 arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/vclock_gettime.c |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h             | 105 +--------
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h       |  20 --
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level_types.h |   5 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/proto.h                |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/segment.h              |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h                |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                |   8 -
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c                  |  17 --
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_32.c         |  36 +--
 arch/x86/xen/Kconfig                        |   3 +-
 arch/x86/xen/Makefile                       |   4 +-
 arch/x86/xen/apic.c                         |  17 --
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c                 |  45 +---
 arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c                       | 326 +++-------------------------
 arch/x86/xen/p2m.c                          |   4 -
 arch/x86/xen/setup.c                        |  44 +---
 arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c                       |  19 +-
 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S                      |  14 --
 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S                   | 207 ------------------
 arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S                     |   6 -
 arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h                      |   5 -
 drivers/xen/Kconfig                         |   4 +-
 24 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 932 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S

-- 
2.16.4


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2019-07-15 11:37 [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 11:37 ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 11:37 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] x86/xen: remove " Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 11:37   ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 15:44   ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2019-07-15 15:44     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-07-16  3:52     ` [Xen-devel] " Juergen Gross
2019-07-16  3:52       ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 11:37 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] x86/paravirt: remove 32-bit support from PARAVIRT_XXL Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 11:37   ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 11:37 ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 12:32 ` [PATCH 0/2] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-15 12:32 ` [Xen-devel] " Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-15 12:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-15 12:36   ` [Xen-devel] " Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 12:36     ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 12:36   ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 16:34 ` Andi Kleen
2019-07-15 16:34 ` [Xen-devel] " Andi Kleen
2019-07-15 16:34   ` Andi Kleen
2019-07-15 17:28   ` [Xen-devel] " Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-15 17:28     ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-15 17:39     ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2019-07-15 17:39       ` Andrew Cooper
2019-07-16  3:55       ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-16  3:55       ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-16  3:55         ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 17:39     ` Andrew Cooper
2019-07-15 17:42     ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 17:42     ` [Xen-devel] " Juergen Gross
2019-07-15 17:42       ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-16  6:58     ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-07-16  6:58       ` Jan Beulich
2019-07-16  6:58       ` Jan Beulich
2019-07-15 17:28   ` Andy Lutomirski

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