Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen/PVH: Remove reserved entry in PVH GDT

2018-05-02 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 02.05.18 at 17:06, wrote: > On 05/02/2018 04:26 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 01.05.18 at 14:34, wrote: >>> On 05/01/2018 04:00 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:23:39PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > And without it we can't use _BOOT_XX macros any longer so

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen/PVH: Remove reserved entry in PVH GDT

2018-05-02 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 05/02/2018 04:26 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 01.05.18 at 14:34, wrote: >> On 05/01/2018 04:00 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:23:39PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: And without it we can't use _BOOT_XX macros any longer so define new ones. >>> Not being that fam

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen/PVH: Remove reserved entry in PVH GDT

2018-05-02 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 01.05.18 at 14:34, wrote: > On 05/01/2018 04:00 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:23:39PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >>> And without it we can't use _BOOT_XX macros any longer so define new ones. >> >> Not being that familiar with Linux internals I'm not sure I se

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen/PVH: Remove reserved entry in PVH GDT

2018-05-02 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 30.04.18 at 18:23, wrote: > And without it we can't use _BOOT_XX macros any longer so define new ones. Ah, here we go. Perhaps this should be moved earlier in the series? Assuming you really want to go this route in the first place, taking Roger's comment into consideration. Jan

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen/PVH: Remove reserved entry in PVH GDT

2018-05-01 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 05/01/2018 04:00 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:23:39PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: And without it we can't use _BOOT_XX macros any longer so define new ones. Not being that familiar with Linux internals I'm not sure I see the benefit of this. Isn't there a risk t

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen/PVH: Remove reserved entry in PVH GDT

2018-05-01 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:23:39PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > And without it we can't use _BOOT_XX macros any longer so define new ones. Not being that familiar with Linux internals I'm not sure I see the benefit of this. Isn't there a risk that some other code is going to use the __BOOT_XX d