From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>,
x86@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
pbonzini@redhat.com, jgross@suse.com
Cc: bp@suse.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, davem@davemloft.net,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, jpoimboe@redhat.com,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org,
mchehab@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, rdunlap@infradead.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, thomas.lendacky@amd.com, hch@infradead.org,
roger.pau@citrix.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] KVM: x86: Allow Qemu/KVM to use PVH entry point
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:13:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7578f80-9bfb-3c90-69fe-11514209db7f@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1544468734-32763-1-git-send-email-maran.wilson@oracle.com>
On 12/10/18 2:05 PM, Maran Wilson wrote:
> For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual
> machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the
> guest is not needed, Qemu should be able to boot directly into the
> uncompressed Linux kernel binary without the need to run firmware.
>
> There already exists an ABI to allow this for Xen PVH guests and the ABI
> is supported by Linux and FreeBSD:
>
> https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvh.html
>
> This patch series would enable Qemu to use that same entry point for
> booting KVM guests.
>
Applied to for-linus-4.21
-boris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-14 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-10 19:05 Maran Wilson
2018-12-10 19:07 ` [PATCH v9 1/7] xen/pvh: Split CONFIG_XEN_PVH into CONFIG_PVH and CONFIG_XEN_PVH Maran Wilson
2018-12-11 13:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-10 19:07 ` [PATCH v9 2/7] xen/pvh: Move PVH entry code out of Xen specific tree Maran Wilson
2018-12-10 19:08 ` [PATCH v9 3/7] xen/pvh: Create a new file for Xen specific PVH code Maran Wilson
2018-12-10 19:08 ` [PATCH v9 4/7] xen/pvh: Move Xen specific PVH VM initialization out of common file Maran Wilson
2018-12-10 19:08 ` [PATCH v9 5/7] xen/pvh: Move Xen code for getting mem map via hcall " Maran Wilson
2018-12-10 19:09 ` [PATCH v9 6/7] xen/pvh: Add memory map pointer to hvm_start_info struct Maran Wilson
2018-12-10 19:09 ` [PATCH v9 7/7] KVM: x86: Allow Qemu/KVM to use PVH entry point Maran Wilson
2018-12-11 13:18 ` [PATCH v9 0/7] " Borislav Petkov
2018-12-11 19:29 ` Maran Wilson
2018-12-12 20:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-12 21:56 ` Maran Wilson
2018-12-13 13:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-12-14 23:13 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
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