From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688F8C433E2 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2020 04:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE222137B for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2020 04:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726286AbgIGE1h (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2020 00:27:37 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55960 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725823AbgIGE1h (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2020 00:27:37 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB4BAC6E; Mon, 7 Sep 2020 04:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] xen: branch for v5.9-rc4 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Boris Ostrovsky References: <20200906044433.24820-1-jgross@suse.com> From: =?UTF-8?B?SsO8cmdlbiBHcm/Dnw==?= Message-ID: <65f878b3-2a46-4781-29b8-9472da500bb2@suse.com> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 06:27:35 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06.09.20 19:01, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 9:44 PM Juergen Gross wrote: >> >> It contains a small series for fixing a problem with Xen PVH guests >> when running as backends (e.g. as dom0). Mapping other guests' memory >> now is working via ZONE_DEVICE, thus not requiring to abuse the memory >> hotplug functionality for that purpose. > > Tssk. This really isn't a bug-fix, it's clearly new development. > > I'm going to let it slide since it seems so contained, but don't do this. Thanks for taking it. I agree I should have spelled out the nature of the patch more clearly and add more reasoning why you might consider taking it. Juergen