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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: xen: update shared_info when long_mode is set
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 08:46:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZWoNzzYiZtloNQiv@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231201104536.947-1-paul@xen.org>

On Fri, Dec 01, 2023, Paul Durrant wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> 
> This series is based on my v9 of my "update shared_info and vcpu_info
> handling" series [1] and fixes an issue that was latent before the
> "allow shared_info to be mapped by fixed HVA" patch of that series allowed
> a VMM to set up shared_info before the VM booted and then leave it alone.

Uh, what?   If this is fixing an existing bug then it really shouldn't take a
dependency on a rather large and non-trivial series.  If the bug can only manifest
as a result of said series, then the fix absolutely belongs in that series.

This change from patch 1 in particular:

 -static int kvm_xen_shared_info_init(struct kvm *kvm, u64 addr, bool addr_is_gfn)
 +static int kvm_xen_shared_info_init(struct kvm *kvm)

practically screams for inclusion in that series which does:

 -static int kvm_xen_shared_info_init(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
 +static int kvm_xen_shared_info_init(struct kvm *kvm, u64 addr, bool addr_is_gfn)

Why not get the code right the first time instead of fixing it up in a completely
different series?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-01 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-01 10:45 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: xen: update shared_info when long_mode is set Paul Durrant
2023-12-01 10:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: xen: separate initialization of shared_info cache and content Paul Durrant
2023-12-01 10:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: xen: (re-)initialize shared_info if guest (32/64-bit) mode is set Paul Durrant
2023-12-01 15:32   ` Paul Durrant
2023-12-01 16:46 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2023-12-01 17:08   ` [PATCH 0/2] KVM: xen: update shared_info when long_mode " Durrant, Paul
2023-12-01 17:44     ` Sean Christopherson

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