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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls
 to be preempted on 64-bit
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:01:18 +0000
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To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
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On 27/01/15 08:35, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 27.01.15 at 02:51, <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> Even if David told you this would be acceptable, I have to question
> an abstract model of fixing issues on only 64-bit kernels - this may
> be acceptable for distro purposes, but seems hardly the right
> approach for upstream. If 32-bit ones are to become deliberately
> broken, the XEN config option should become dependent on !X86_32.

There are still legitimate reasons to prefer 32bit PV guests over 64bit
ones.  Previous versions of this patch had 32bit support as well.  Why
did you drop it?

~Andrew