From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>,
Jiageng Yu <yujiageng734@gmail.com>,
Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@gmail.com>,
Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Linux Stubdom Problem
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:02:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA838CEF.1FFF2%keir.xen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108291636010.12963@kaball-desktop>
On 29/08/2011 17:03, "Stefano Stabellini" <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
wrote:
>> Oh, so it will. You'd need to arrange for that to be called from inside
>> the guest; or you could implement an add_to_physmap space for it; that
>> could be called from another domain.
>
> "From inside the guest" means hvmloader?
> The good thing about doing it in hvmloader is that we could use the
> traditional PV frontend/backend mechanism to share pages. On the other
> hand hvmloader doesn't know if we are using stubdoms at the moment and
> it would need to issue the grant table hypercall only in that case.
> Unless we decide to always grant the videoram to guests but it would
> change once again the domain to which the videoram is accounted for
> (dom0/stubdom rather than the guest, that is a bad thing).
> Also I don't like the idea of making hvmloader stubdom aware.
I don't see a problem with it, in principle. I see hvmloader as almost an
in-guest part of the toolstack. The fact that it only executes at guest boot
means it can be fairly closely tied to the toolstack version.
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-31 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-21 16:54 Linux Stubdom Problem Jiageng Yu
2011-07-21 17:08 ` iommu=force-hpdl385g7 boot option as workaround for missing IOMMU support in BIOS of HP DL385 g7 Mark Schneider
2011-07-21 17:18 ` Linux Stubdom Problem Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-25 16:45 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-07-26 17:50 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-07-27 11:26 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-27 12:56 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-07-27 13:34 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-28 15:34 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-07-28 17:01 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-07-29 14:29 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-29 14:51 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-07-29 15:04 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-29 15:09 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-07-29 15:18 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-07-29 15:16 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-07-29 15:28 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-08-12 16:22 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-08-15 12:46 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-08-18 23:39 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-08-22 15:24 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-08-22 19:36 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-08-22 20:16 ` Keir Fraser
2011-08-23 9:39 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-08-23 14:38 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-08-23 10:07 ` Tim Deegan
2011-08-23 12:59 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-08-26 16:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-08-27 13:06 ` Tim Deegan
2011-08-29 12:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-08-29 13:18 ` Tim Deegan
2011-08-29 16:03 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-08-31 6:02 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2011-09-01 17:12 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-09-01 17:27 ` Tim Deegan
2011-09-02 2:32 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-09-02 11:03 ` Tim Deegan
2011-09-02 13:09 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-09-02 13:11 ` Keir Fraser
2011-09-14 13:38 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-09-15 11:13 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-10-27 14:56 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-11-08 17:05 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-09 8:59 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-11-09 13:47 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-09 14:30 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-11-10 10:19 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-17 15:18 ` Jiageng Yu
2011-11-18 11:21 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-09 17:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-10 10:10 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-04 14:00 ` Jiageng Yu
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