From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/22] xen/arm64: Add support for 64KB page in Linux Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 10:35:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20151002143520.GH18769@localhost.localdomain> References: <1443609937-25278-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@citrix.com> <560D4E02.60700@citrix.com> <1443779494.11707.71.camel@citrix.com> <560E85BB.4000101@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi1Qv-0005Qw-Cv for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:35:37 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <560E85BB.4000101@oracle.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com, Ian Campbell , David Vrabel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 09:25:15AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > > On 10/02/2015 05:51 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > >(trimming and reordering To/Cc) > > > >On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 16:15 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > >>On 30/09/15 11:45, Julien Grall wrote: > >>>Hi all, > >>> > >>>ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granularity. Although, > >>>Xen > >>>hypercall interface and PV protocol are always based on 4KB page > >>>granularity. > >>> > >>>Any attempt to boot a Linux guest with 64KB pages enabled will result > >>>to a > >>>guest crash. > >>> > >>>This series is a first attempt to allow those Linux running with the > >>>current > >>>hypercall interface and PV protocol. > >>> > >>>This solution has been chosen because we want to run Linux 64KB in > >>>released > >>>Xen ARM version or/and platform using an old version of Linux DOM0. > >>Applied to for-linus-4.4, thanks. > >> > >>Boris, can you kick off a set of tests for this branch, please? > >@Boris, > > > >Would it be possible to have the results of this test framework posted to > >the list, like osstest does? > > Not in the way it is currently set up --- we have 7 or 8 test systems and > each one generates an email with results. It may not be too bad if all tests > pass but if they fail each email may have as much as 2-3 MB of logs (we > don't upload them anywhere). > > I could generate a summary of a nightly run but then we have some > intermittent failures mostly on some older distros (like Fedora 15) that we > are unlikely to ever look into so that may make things confusing (Yes, the > question is then -- why do we even bother running it). Lets kill it. I thought it was Fedora 16 though? > > > > > >@Linux-Maintainers, > > > >It occurs to me that osstest doesn't have a branch which is testing your > >kernel tree. Do you have a fast-forwarding branch in git > >://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git which merges up some > >forward looking set of changes? If so I can pretty trivially arrange an > >osstest branch to track it. > > > >(If there isn't a f-forwarding one maybe it would still be worth testing > >something, it just probably wouldn't get bisected in any useful way if it > >broke). > > Yes, perhaps have a devel/oss branch that tracks the latest > devel/for-linus-? David? > > -boris > >