From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757946Ab0EXS2j (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2010 14:28:39 -0400 Received: from smtp.ctxuk.citrix.com ([62.200.22.115]:23186 "EHLO SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757393Ab0EXS2i (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2010 14:28:38 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 416 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 14:28:37 EDT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,292,1272844800"; d="scan'208";a="61772" Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 19:29:10 +0100 From: Stefano Stabellini X-X-Sender: sstabellini@kaball-desktop To: Stefano Stabellini CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Don Dutile , Sheng Yang Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 12] PV on HVM Xen In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The subject should be [PATCH 0 of 11] PV on HVM Xen, sorry about that. On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Hi all, > this is another update of the PV on HVM Xen series that addresses > Jeremy's comments. > The platform_pci hooks have been removed, suspend/resume for HVM > domains is now much more similar to the PV case and shares the same > do_suspend function. > Alloc_xen_mmio_hook has been removed has well, now the memory allocation for > the grant table is done by the xen platform pci driver directly. > The per_cpu xen_vcpu variable is set by a cpu_notifier function so that > secondary vcpus have the variable set correctly no matter what the xen > features are on the host. > The kernel command line option xen_unplug has been renamed to > xen_emul_unplug and the code that makes use of it has been moved to a > separate file (arch/x86/xen/platform-pci-unplug.c). > Xen_unplug_emulated_devices is now able to detect if blkfront, netfront > and the Xen platform PCI driver have been compiled, and set the default > value of xen_emul_unplug accordingly. > The patch "Initialize xenbus device structs with ENODEV as > default" has been removed from the series and it will be sent > separately. > Finally the comments on most of the patches have been improved. > > The series is based on 2.6.34 and supports Xen PV frontends running > in a HVM domain, including netfront, blkfront and the VIRQ_TIMER. > > In order to be able to use VIRQ_TIMER and to improve performances you > need a patch to Xen to implement the vector callback mechanism > for event channel delivery. > > A git tree is also available here: > > git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git > > branch name 2.6.34-pvhvm-v2. > > Cheers, > > Stefano >