linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] xen/pvh: Prevent PVH guests from using PIC, RTC and IOAPIC

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Date:   Thu, 2 Feb 2017 16:23:38 +0100
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Cc:     roger.pau@...rix.com, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] xen/pvh: Prevent PVH guests from using PIC, RTC
 and IOAPIC

On 26/01/17 20:41, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Make sure they don't use these devices since they are not emulated
> for unprivileged PVH guest.
> 
> Also don't initialize hypercall page for them in init_hvm_pv_info()
> since this has already been done.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>


Juergen