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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>,
	george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, tim@xen.org,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jbeulich@suse.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v10] Repost of PVH patches for Linux.
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:30:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131213143039.GF2923@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52AAF176.3020102@citrix.com>

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:37:26AM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 13/12/13 02:10, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Mukesh had posted them quite a while ago - they got reviewed, acked, etc,
> > put in #linux-next, got patches to fix some things from folks.
> > 
> > Then everybody focused on the Xen patches .. and now that is mostly
> > baked this is what is needed on the Linux side to make it work
> > with PVH. I had them based on v3.6, then merged on v3.11, then..
> > 
> > Decided to rebase all of them on v3.13-rc3 to make it easier.
> 
> In general the series is a bit of mess, early patches doing things one
> way (using hypercalls that no longer exist for example) and later
> patches fixing things up.  I think this should be sorted out as it makes
> it too difficult to review carefully (I've only given the series a
> quick, initial review).

I need from Mukesh the follow on patches that "fix" this
so I can rebase, squash, etc them them up a bit to make it easier.


> 
> > Couple of things:
> > 
> > a) the patch:
> >  [PATCH V10 14/14] xen/pvh: vcpu info placement, load CS selector,
> > 
> > could be split in three - and I think Mukesh did have a version like that.
> > I can do it myself and will - it should be obvious of how it will be done.
> > 
> > b). Regression testing  - I ran this with a Linux kernel dom0 (32 and 64)
> >     on the latest Xen hypervisor without PVH enabled. It booted all the
> >     guests I had:
> >     RHEL5, SLES11, SLES12, F15, F16, F17, F18, F19, OEL5, OEL6, NetBSD PV,
> >     FreeBSD HVM; and also 32 and 64 PV and PVHVM combination of the same
> >     kernel (and save/restore on those). Nothing broke.
> 
> That's good to know.
> 
> David
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-13 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-13  2:10 [PATCH v10] Repost of PVH patches for Linux Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 01/14] xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 10:44   ` David Vrabel
2013-12-13 14:32     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 02/14] xen/pvh: Extend vcpu_guest_context, p2m, event, and XenBus Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 10:56   ` David Vrabel
2013-12-13 14:26     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 14:59       ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 03/14] xen/pvh: Implement MMU changes for PVH Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 16:54   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 04/14] xen/pvh: bootup and setup (E820) related changes Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 17:55   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2013-12-17 21:39     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 05/14] xen/pvh: balloon and grant changes Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 11:02   ` David Vrabel
2013-12-13 11:56   ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-13 14:36     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 14:49       ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-13 14:59         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 15:34           ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-13 15:47             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 15:51               ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 06/14] xen: x86 pvh: use XENMEM_add_to_physmap_range for foreign gmfn mappings Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 07/14] xen/x86: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 08/14] x86/xen: Use __pa_symbol instead of __pa on C visible symbols Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 11:04   ` David Vrabel
2013-12-13 14:24     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 09/14] xen: implement updated XENMEM_add_to_physmap_range ABI Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 11:35   ` David Vrabel
2013-12-13 14:27     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 14:30       ` David Vrabel
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 10/14] xen/pvh: specify xen features strings cleanly for PVH Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 11/14] xen/pvh: remove code to map iomem from guest Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 12/14] xen/pvh: Use ballooning to allocate grant table pages [v2] Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 13/14] x86/xen: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13  2:10 ` [PATCH V10 14/14] xen/pvh: vcpu info placement, load CS selector, and remove debug printk Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-13 11:34   ` David Vrabel
2013-12-13 11:37 ` [PATCH v10] Repost of PVH patches for Linux David Vrabel
2013-12-13 14:30   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]

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