linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/4] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support

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Message-Id: <20200701110650.16172-1-jgross@suse.com>
Date:   Wed,  1 Jul 2020 13:06:46 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Deep Shah <sdeep@...are.com>,
        "VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@...are.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support

The long term plan has been to replace Xen PV guests by PVH. The first
victim of that plan are now 32-bit PV guests, as those are used only
rather seldom these days. Xen on x86 requires 64-bit support and with
Grub2 now supporting PVH officially since version 2.04 there is no
need to keep 32-bit PV guest support alive in the Linux kernel.
Additionally Meltdown mitigation is not available in the kernel running
as 32-bit PV guest, so dropping this mode makes sense from security
point of view, too.

Changes in V2:
- rebase to 5.8 kernel
- addressed comments to V1
- new patches 3 and 4

Juergen Gross (4):
  x86/xen: remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support
  x86/paravirt: remove 32-bit support from PARAVIRT_XXL
  x86/paravirt: cleanup paravirt macros
  x86/paravirt: use CONFIG_PARAVIRT_XXL instead of CONFIG_PARAVIRT

 arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S                   | 109 +------
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S                   |   4 +-
 arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/vclock_gettime.c |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h               |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h             | 107 +-----
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h       |  21 --
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level_types.h |   5 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/proto.h                |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h    |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/segment.h              |   6 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                |   8 -
 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S                   |  31 --
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c              |   1 -
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c               |   1 -
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c                  |  18 --
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch.c            |  17 -
 arch/x86/xen/Kconfig                        |   3 +-
 arch/x86/xen/Makefile                       |   3 +-
 arch/x86/xen/apic.c                         |  17 -
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c                 |  52 +--
 arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c                       | 340 +++-----------------
 arch/x86/xen/p2m.c                          |   6 +-
 arch/x86/xen/setup.c                        |  35 +-
 arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c                       |  18 --
 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S                      | 182 ++++++++++-
 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S                   | 185 -----------
 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_64.S                   | 181 -----------
 arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S                     |   6 -
 drivers/xen/Kconfig                         |   4 +-
 29 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 1135 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_64.S

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