linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] xen: remove some checks for always present Xen features

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Message-ID: <3c89ca14-8790-2d0e-a115-16a0976f68e3@suse.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 May 2021 09:34:18 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org
Cc:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] xen: remove some checks for always present Xen
 features

On 22.04.21 17:10, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Some features of Xen can be assumed to be always present, so add a
> central check to verify this being true and remove the other checks.
> 
> Juergen Gross (3):
>    xen: check required Xen features
>    xen: assume XENFEAT_mmu_pt_update_preserve_ad being set for pv guests
>    xen: assume XENFEAT_gnttab_map_avail_bits being set for pv guests
> 
>   arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c | 12 ++----------
>   arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c       |  4 ++--
>   drivers/xen/features.c      | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/xen/gntdev.c        | 36 ++----------------------------------
>   4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> 

Could I please get some feedback on this series?


Juergen

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