linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/9] apm32: remove paravirt

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Message-ID: <56C79477.3060105@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:17:27 -0500
From:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:	bp@...en8.de, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	luto@...capital.net, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	david.vrabel@...rix.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] apm32: remove paravirt_enabled() use



On 02/19/2016 03:58 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:08:43AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>
>> in xen_start_kernel(). Better yet, clear whole .bss.
>>
>> (This applies to the next patch as well).
> So clear_bss() -- oh look, another call that xen_start_kernel() could have made
> good use of. :)  Can you send a respective patch I can old into this series?
> I'm afraid it is by no means obvious to me where it would be safe to do this on
> xen_start_kernel().

OK, I'll test it next week, it really should be done irrespective of 
what you are doing here.

-boris