From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Yang Z Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>,
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
Donald D Dugger <donald.d.dugger@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] VT-d: honor firmware-first mode in XSA-59 workaround code
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:19:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537E076D.60700@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537DEE7D0200007800014E76@mail.emea.novell.com>
On 22/05/14 11:33, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 22.05.14 at 12:19, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
>> No. We have not observed an issue from XSA-59.
>>
>> The version of XenServer we had the issue with didn't contain any of the
>> XSA-59 fixes at the point that the problem was observed.
> Then what was yesterday's alert about then? I.e. do we have any
> indication that the workaround as is may cause problems, and that
> hence the (relatively involved) patch here is needed at all? And, how
> are you intending to test this patch if you haven't even seen an
> issue?
>
> Jan
>
As part of finding the root cause of our issue, we identified that just
as Dom0 must not play with AER in firmware first mode, Xen must not play
either.
I believe that we have XSA-59 affected hardware with both firmware-first
and non-firmware-first HEST tables, so we should be able to
behaviourally test the patch.
~Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-22 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-21 16:09 [PATCH RFC] VT-d: honor firmware-first mode in XSA-59 workaround code Jan Beulich
2014-05-21 16:33 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-22 7:13 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-22 9:34 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-22 10:06 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-22 10:19 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-22 10:33 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-22 14:19 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-05-23 1:03 ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-05-23 6:13 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-23 6:40 ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-05-23 2:32 ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-05-23 6:22 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-23 6:46 ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-05-23 7:15 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-26 0:39 ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-05-26 10:19 ` [PATCH v2 " Jan Beulich
2014-06-03 14:38 ` Malcolm Crossley
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