From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>,
boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] xen: eliminate scalability issues from initrd handling
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 15:53:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54087CE3.6020400@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540893570200007800030E4C@mail.emea.novell.com>
On 04/09/14 15:29, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 04.09.14 at 14:52, <david.vrabel@citrix.com> wrote:
>> On 04/09/14 13:38, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> --- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
>>> @@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ NEXT_HYPERCALL(arch_6)
>>> ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_L1_MFN_VALID,
>>> .quad _PAGE_PRESENT; .quad _PAGE_PRESENT)
>>> ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_SUSPEND_CANCEL, .long 1)
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>>> + ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_MOD_START_PFN, .long 1)
>>> +#endif
>>
>> Why X86_64 only? If there's a good reason the commit message needs to
>> explain why.
>
> Does native 32-bit support huge initrd?
Does that matter? If the MOD_START_PFN options works with a 32-bit guest
then it should use it, regardless of whether it is essential or not.
Because this reduces the #ifdef'ery.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-04 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-04 12:38 [PATCH 0/3] xen: remove memory limits from pv-domains Juergen Gross
2014-09-04 12:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen: sync some headers with xen tree Juergen Gross
2014-09-04 12:52 ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-05 8:06 ` Juergen Gross
2014-09-04 12:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen: eliminate scalability issues from initrd handling Juergen Gross
2014-09-04 12:52 ` David Vrabel
2014-09-04 14:29 ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-04 14:53 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-09-05 8:04 ` [Xen-devel] " Juergen Gross
2014-09-04 12:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen: eliminate scalability issues from initial mapping setup Juergen Gross
2014-09-04 12:59 ` David Vrabel
2014-09-04 13:02 ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2014-09-04 14:31 ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-04 14:43 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-09-05 7:55 ` Juergen Gross
2014-09-05 9:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-09-05 9:44 ` Juergen Gross
2014-09-04 15:13 ` David Vrabel
2014-09-05 8:03 ` Juergen Gross
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