linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] xen: Make XEN

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Message-ID: <c96f9cdb-de4d-4972-63e5-64c3cf535064@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:12:03 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@...il.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xen: Make XEN_BACKEND selectable by DomU

On 9/25/18 7:36 AM, Jason Andryuk wrote:
> XEN_BACKEND doesn't actually depend on XEN_DOM0.  DomUs can serve
> backends to other DomUs.  One example is a service VM providing network
> backends.
>
> The original Kconfig defaulted Dom0 to y and it could be disabled.  DomU
> could not select the option.  With the new Kconfig, we default y for
> Dom0 and n for DomU.  Either can then toggle the selection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>

Applied to for-linus-19d