From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: len.brown@intel.com, x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, mingo@redhat.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
pavel@ucw.cz, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] x86/xen: use guest_late_init to detect Xen PVH guest
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:24:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b061d8fd-d4ed-7334-d4d8-16fed2e4b306@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e85c24d-b8ce-10aa-e030-f3d576eb781e@suse.com>
On 11/08/2017 09:17 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 08/11/17 15:10, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 11/08/2017 08:36 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> Regarding ACPI tables: current PVH implementation in Linux kernel
>>> seems not to make use of the special information presented in the boot
>>> information block.
>> It will need to do so for dom0 (and, then, for simplicity, for all PVH
>> guests).
> What about: for all PVH guests booted via the PVH specific boot entry?
> A guest booted via the default boot entry won't know it is PVH until
> ACPI tables have been scanned.
Right. Guest booted from default entry will have to discover RSDP in the
usual way.
-boris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 9:07 [PATCH 0/3] x86/xen: support booting PVH guest via standard boot path Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 9:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/acpi: add test for ACPI_FADT_NO_VGA Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 9:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: add guest_late_init hook to hypervisor_x86 structure Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 9:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-08 9:27 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 9:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-08 9:49 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 9:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-08 9:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-11-08 9:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/xen: use guest_late_init to detect Xen PVH guest Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 11:18 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <5A02F633020000780018D26A@suse.com>
2017-11-08 11:55 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 12:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-11-08 12:24 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 12:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-11-08 12:40 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 12:31 ` Jan Beulich
2017-11-08 12:45 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 12:58 ` Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <5A030D78020000780018D37B@suse.com>
2017-11-08 13:36 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 14:10 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-11-08 14:17 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 14:24 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2017-11-08 13:37 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86/xen: support booting PVH guest via standard boot path Boris Ostrovsky
2017-11-08 13:40 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-08 13:47 ` Boris Ostrovsky
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