Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Xen PV on HVM fixes and improvements

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 05:11:33PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi all,
> this patch series is a collection of fixes and improvements for Linux
> running as Xen PV on HVM guest.
> Changes to the previous version:

Looks good to me. I am surprised that it was that easy to get the balloon
code to work under HVM..

> 
> - patch 5 and 6 have been squashed together;
> 
> - xen_hvm_spinlock_init has been merged into xen_hvm_smp_prepare_cpus.
> 
> 
> The list of patches with diffstat follows:
> 
> Stefano Stabellini (6):
>       xen: no need to delay xen_setup_shutdown_event for hvm guests anymore
>       xen: do not use xen_info on HVM, set pv_info name to "Xen HVM"
>       xen-blkfront: handle Xen major numbers other than XENVBD
>       xen: make the ballon driver work for hvm domains
>       xen: PV on HVM: support PV spinlocks and IPIs
>       xen: fix compile issue if XEN is enabled but XEN_PVHVM is disabled
> 
>  arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c         |    6 ++-
>  arch/x86/xen/smp.c               |   38 ++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/xen/suspend.c           |    2 +
>  arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h           |    2 +
>  drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c     |   79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/xen/balloon.c            |   14 ++++--
>  drivers/xen/manage.c             |   17 ++------
>  drivers/xen/platform-pci.c       |    3 -
>  include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h |   21 ++++++++++
>  9 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> A branch with these patches on 2.6.38-rc6 is available here:
> 
> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git 2.6.38-rc6-pvhvm
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stefano