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Message-ID: <20131213143039.GF2923@phenom.dumpdata.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:30:39 -0500
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Cc:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>,
	george.dunlap@...citrix.com, tim@....org,
	ian.jackson@...citrix.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jbeulich@...e.com, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v10] Repost of PVH patches for Linux.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:37:26AM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 13/12/13 02:10, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Mukesh had posted them quite a while ago - they got reviewed, acked, etc,
> > put in #linux-next, got patches to fix some things from folks.
> > 
> > Then everybody focused on the Xen patches .. and now that is mostly
> > baked this is what is needed on the Linux side to make it work
> > with PVH. I had them based on v3.6, then merged on v3.11, then..
> > 
> > Decided to rebase all of them on v3.13-rc3 to make it easier.
> 
> In general the series is a bit of mess, early patches doing things one
> way (using hypercalls that no longer exist for example) and later
> patches fixing things up.  I think this should be sorted out as it makes
> it too difficult to review carefully (I've only given the series a
> quick, initial review).

I need from Mukesh the follow on patches that "fix" this
so I can rebase, squash, etc them them up a bit to make it easier.


> 
> > Couple of things:
> > 
> > a) the patch:
> >  [PATCH V10 14/14] xen/pvh: vcpu info placement, load CS selector,
> > 
> > could be split in three - and I think Mukesh did have a version like that.
> > I can do it myself and will - it should be obvious of how it will be done.
> > 
> > b). Regression testing  - I ran this with a Linux kernel dom0 (32 and 64)
> >     on the latest Xen hypervisor without PVH enabled. It booted all the
> >     guests I had:
> >     RHEL5, SLES11, SLES12, F15, F16, F17, F18, F19, OEL5, OEL6, NetBSD PV,
> >     FreeBSD HVM; and also 32 and 64 PV and PVHVM combination of the same
> >     kernel (and save/restore on those). Nothing broke.
> 
> That's good to know.
> 
> David
> 
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