linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove XEN_PRIVILEGED

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Message-ID: <1393620863.4052.2.camel@x220>
Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2014 21:54:23 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
	<phcoder@...il.com>
Cc:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST

On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 20:38 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> On 24.02.2014 19:39, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:14:27AM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> >> And that commit was reverted a week later in grub commit
> >> faf4a65e1e1ce1d822d251c1e4b53d96ec7faec5 ("Revert grub-file usage in
> >> grub-mkconfig."), see
> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/util/grub.d/20_linux_xen.in?id=faf4a65e1e1ce1d822d251c1e4b53d96ec7faec5 .
> >>
> >> That commit has no explanation (other than its one line summary). So
> >> we're left guessing why this was done. Luckily, it doesn't matter here,
> >> because the test for CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is superfluous.
> > 
> > How about we ask Vladimir?
> > 
> > Vladimir - could you shed some light on it? Thanks!
> > 
> CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is not present on Linux even though it
> should be. The test was removed to accomodate this.

It's not clear to me what this means, sorry. 

> The usage of grub-file was removed because it wasn't release-ready.

I see.

Thanks.


Paul Bolle

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