linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen: add sysfs node for guest type

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Message-ID: <85bb5bf3-c8b6-aba3-b1fe-190ed1364699@suse.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 16:21:30 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen: add sysfs node for guest type

On 22/05/17 15:17, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor
>> index 443196f0aa1c..06850f74ebd4 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor
>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor
>> @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ Contact:	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
>>  Description:
>>  		Compiler which was used to build the Xen hypervisor
>>  
>> +What:		/sys/hypervisor/guest_type
>> +Date:		May 2017
>> +KernelVersion:	4.12
>> +Contact:	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
>> +Description:
>> +		Type of guest:
>> +		"native": standard guest type on arm
>> +		"HVM": fully virtualized guest (x86)
> 
> Can we ever get this? Xen sysfs node won't load unless we are
> !XEN_NATIVE and then we are either PVH or PVHVM.

When we remove PVHVM as suggested by Andrew, HVM will be kept. :-)


Juergen