linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 00/22] xen/arm64: Add support for 64KB page in Linux

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Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2015 16:15:14 +0100
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:	Julien Grall <julien.grall@...rix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
CC:	<wei.liu2@...rix.com>, <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	<stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <roger.pau@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 00/22] xen/arm64: Add support for 64KB
 page in Linux

On 30/09/15 11:45, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granularity. Although, Xen
> hypercall interface and PV protocol are always based on 4KB page granularity.
> 
> Any attempt to boot a Linux guest with 64KB pages enabled will result to a
> guest crash.
> 
> This series is a first attempt to allow those Linux running with the current
> hypercall interface and PV protocol.
> 
> This solution has been chosen because we want to run Linux 64KB in released
> Xen ARM version or/and platform using an old version of Linux DOM0.

Applied to for-linus-4.4, thanks.

Boris, can you kick off a set of tests for this branch, please?

David
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