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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Xen Devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	long.wanglong@huawei.com, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	qiuxishi@huawei.comAndrey Ryabinin <ryab>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] paravirt: rename paravirt_enabled to paravirt_legacy
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:03:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160217220304.GP2023@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C4E474.2070206@oracle.com>

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 04:21:56PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> That's exactly the point: if something is mapped it's an error for a
> non-PV kernel.

How would something be mapped there? __PAGE_OFFSET is
0xffff880000000000.

Or are you thinking about some insanely b0rked kernel code mapping stuff
in there?

> By removing paravirt_enabled() we may miss those errors. Worse, I think we
> may even crash while doing pagetable walk (although it's probably better to
> crash here than to use an unexpected translation in real code somewhere)

Well, if this is the only site which keeps paravirt_enabled() from being
buried, we need to think about a better way to detect a hypervisor.
Maybe we should look at x86_hyper, use CPUID(0x4...) or something else.

What's your preference?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-17 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-06  4:30 [PATCH v2 0/3] paravirt: rebrand paravirt_enabled as paravirt_legacy Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-06  4:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] paravirt: use bool for paravirt_enabled() and paravirt_has_feature() Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-06  4:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] paravirt: replace direct access to pv_info.paravirt_enabled Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-06  4:30 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] paravirt: rename paravirt_enabled to paravirt_legacy Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-06  7:11   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-02-06  8:59     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-06 20:05       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-02-06 22:04         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-08 15:39           ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-08 15:55             ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-08 16:05               ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2016-02-08 16:12                 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-08 16:26                   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-08 16:31                     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-08 16:32                       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-08 16:35                       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-08 16:38                         ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-08 16:45                           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-08 16:52                             ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-08 20:45                               ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-08 21:06                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-08 16:53                             ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-08 17:13                               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-09  6:22                               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-08 16:41                         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-08 16:52                           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-08 15:31         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-08 15:46           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-09  6:59             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-08 21:04           ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-02-09  7:06           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-17 20:07             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-17 20:49               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-17 21:12                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-17 21:21                 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-17 22:03                   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-02-17 22:18                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-02-17 22:39                       ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-17 23:39                         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-17 22:19                     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-17 22:35                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-09  6:41         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-08 21:49       ` Boris Ostrovsky

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