From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752720Ab3LMLh4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:37:56 -0500 Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:41956 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752230Ab3LMLhz (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:37:55 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,478,1384300800"; d="scan'208";a="84237995" Message-ID: <52AAF176.3020102@citrix.com> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:37:26 +0000 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20121215 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CC: , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v10] Repost of PVH patches for Linux. References: <1386900621-27528-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <1386900621-27528-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.80.2.76] X-DLP: MIA1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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). > 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