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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com,
	mukesh.rathor@oracle.com, tim@xen.org, jbeulich@suse.com,
	boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 05/14] xen/pvh: balloon and grant changes.
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:47:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131213154722.GA7214@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1312131530030.8667@kaball.uk.xensource.com>

> > > > > These changes to balloon.c are similar to my patch but:
> > > > > 
> > > > > - they don't prevent set_phys_to_machine from being called by
> > > > > increase_reservation for auto_translated guests
> > > > 
> > > > <nods>
> > > > > 
> > > > > - they don't prevent wasteful balloon_scratch_page from being allocated
> > > > > for auto_translated guests
> > > > 
> > > > <nods>
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think that it would be best to take my patch instead.
> > > > 
> > > > Lets focus the review on your patch then and have it part of this
> > > > series. 
> > > 
> > > OK, but keep in mind that Xen on ARMv8 is currently broken without that
> > > patch.
> > 
> > Hm. We could have another patch to just disable BALLOON on ARMv8 :-)
> > 
> > The question you have to ask - if your patch causes regression are you
> > OK tracking/fixing it over the holidays :-) If yes, then yes - we can
> > put that in v3.13-rc3 to make it work properly on ARMv8.
> 
> Damn, that was a good argument.
> After thinking more about it, I think that I, or a member of my team,
> can actually fix possible bugs during the holidays. Especially
> considering that the patch doesn't alter the behavior of PV guests.
> 
> So in short, yes :)

Great <evil laughther>! Could you repost it with the description changes?
Or if you OK with the changes I had proposed - just tell me "yes" and I will
alter it.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-13 15:48 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 [this message]
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   ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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