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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16] xen: disable PAT
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 13:14:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090508111432.GF11596@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241730653-4688-7-git-send-email-jeremy@goop.org>


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> 
> Impact: disable PAT under Xen
> 
> Xen imposes a particular PAT layout on all paravirtual guests which
> does not match the layout Linux would like to use.
> 
> Force PAT to be disabled until this is resolved.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

hm, what will the resolution be? Every step in the direction of 
making Xen guests more special is a step in the wrong direction. 
Coupling between Xen and Linux should be reduced, not increased.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-08 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-07 21:10 [GIT PULL] xen: core dom0 support Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 01/16] xen dom0: Make hvc_xen console work for dom0 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 02/16] xen dom0: Initialize xenbus " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 03/16] xen dom0: Set up basic IO permissions " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 04/16] xen dom0: Add support for the platform_ops hypercall Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 05/16] xen mtrr: Add mtrr_ops support for Xen mtrr Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08 11:17   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 06/16] xen: disable PAT Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08 11:14   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-05-08 12:38     ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-08 14:50       ` Alan Cox
2009-05-09  8:04         ` [Xen-devel] " Keir Fraser
2009-05-09 18:36           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-10  9:21             ` Keir Fraser
2009-05-10 13:29               ` Alan Cox
2009-05-10 17:34                 ` Keir Fraser
2009-05-10 17:55                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-11 11:10                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 07/16] xen/dom0: use _PAGE_IOMAP in ioremap to do machine mappings Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 08/16] xen/dom0: Use host E820 map Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 09/16] xen: implement XENMEM_machphys_mapping Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 10/16] xen: clear reserved bits in l3 entries given in the initial pagetables Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 11/16] xen: allow enable use of VGA console on dom0 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 12/16] xen/dom0: add XEN_DOM0 config option Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 13/16] x86: make /dev/mem mappings _PAGE_IOMAP Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 14/16] paravirtualize IO permission bitmap Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 15/16] x86: don't need "changed" parameter for set_io_bitmap() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-07 21:10 ` [PATCH 16/16] xen: checkpatch cleanups Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-12 21:28 [GIT PULL] xen dom0 core changes Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 21:28 ` [PATCH 06/16] xen: disable PAT Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-02 15:37   ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-06-03  6:33     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-27  7:15 [GIT PULL REPOST] xen/dom0/core - core Xen dom0 support changes Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-27  7:15 ` [PATCH 06/16] xen: disable PAT Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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