Re: [PATCH] xen/x86: obtain upper 32 bits of video frame buffer address for Dom0

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>]

On 1/4/22 11:54 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 04.01.2022 17:50, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 1/4/22 3:46 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> The hypervisor has been supplying this information for a couple of major
>>> releases. Make use of it. The need to set a flag in the capabilities
>>> field also points out that the prior setting of that field from the
>>> hypervisor interface's gbl_caps one was wrong, so that code gets deleted
>>> (there's also no equivalent of this in native boot code).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>>>
>>> --- a/arch/x86/xen/vga.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/vga.c
>>> @@ -63,13 +63,17 @@ void __init xen_init_vga(const struct do
>>>    		}
>>>    
>>>    		if (size >= offsetof(struct dom0_vga_console_info,
>>> -				     u.vesa_lfb.gbl_caps)
>>> -		    + sizeof(info->u.vesa_lfb.gbl_caps))
>>> -			screen_info->capabilities = info->u.vesa_lfb.gbl_caps;
>>> -		if (size >= offsetof(struct dom0_vga_console_info,
>>>    				     u.vesa_lfb.mode_attrs)
>>>    		    + sizeof(info->u.vesa_lfb.mode_attrs))
>>
>> Do we still need this test? All 4.0+ hypervisors will have mode_attrs.
> Perhaps this could also be dropped, but unlike the capabilities part
> I'd view this as an unrelated change.


Right.


>   Furthermore even a new hypervisor
> would be free to omit the field, provided it also sets size low enough.


If this is allowed, how would we deal with hypervisor dropping some other random field here? Have we had a precedent of this happening?


I think it's safe to drop these checks. In fact, most of them in this function (except for the last one, obviously).



-boris