From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752964Ab3LMOby (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:31:54 -0500 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:47499 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752745Ab3LMObv (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:31:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:30:39 -0500 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: David Vrabel Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , 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. Message-ID: <20131213143039.GF2923@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1386900621-27528-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <52AAF176.3020102@citrix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52AAF176.3020102@citrix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel