Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [STABLE-4.4, 3.18]: fix xen_swiotlb_dma_mmap prototype

2017-10-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:01:26AM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > xen_swiotlb_dma_mmap was backported from v4.10, but older > > kernels before commit 00085f1efa38 ("dma-mapping: use unsigned long > > for dma_attrs") use a different signature: > > >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen: xen-pciback: remove DRIVER_ATTR() usage

2017-07-19 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 04:51:02PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 19/07/17 16:43, Greg KH wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > It's better to be explicit and use the DRIVER_ATTR_RW() and > > DRIVER_ATTR_RO() macros when defining a driver's sysfs fi

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen: xen-pciback: remove DRIVER_ATTR() usage

2017-07-19 Thread Greg KH
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman It's better to be explicit and use the DRIVER_ATTR_RW() and DRIVER_ATTR_RO() macros when defining a driver's sysfs file. Bonus is this fixes up a checkpatch.pl warning. This is part of a series to drop DRIVER_ATTR() from the tree entirely. Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Juer

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: xen-pciback: remove DRIVER_ATTR() usage

2017-07-19 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:17:53PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 19/07/17 14:58, Greg KH wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > It's better to be explicit and use the DRIVER_ATTR_RW() and > > DRIVER_ATTR_RO() macros when defining a driver's sysfs fi

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: xen-pciback: remove DRIVER_ATTR() usage

2017-07-19 Thread Greg KH
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman It's better to be explicit and use the DRIVER_ATTR_RW() and DRIVER_ATTR_RO() macros when defining a driver's sysfs file. Bonus is this fixes up a checkpatch.pl warning. This is part of a series to drop DRIVER_ATTR() from the tree entirely. Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Juer

Re: [Xen-devel] [stable-4.9: PATCH] xen: revert commit 72a9b186292

2017-05-11 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 07:11:56AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification > through Xen PCI platform device") as the original analysis was wrong > that all the removed code isn't in use any more. > > It is still necessary for old Xen versio

Re: [Xen-devel] [stable-4.10: PATCH] xen: revert commits 72a9b186292 and da72ff5bfcb0

2017-05-11 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 07:12:13AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification > through Xen PCI platform device") as the original analysis was wrong > that all the removed code isn't in use any more. As commit da72ff5bfcb0 > ("partially revert x

Re: [Xen-devel] [stable-4.11: PATCH] xen: revert commits 72a9b186292 and da72ff5bfcb0

2017-05-11 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 08:12:47AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification > through Xen PCI platform device") as the original analysis was wrong > that all the removed code isn't in use any more. As commit da72ff5bfcb0 > ("partially revert x

Re: [Xen-devel] [stable-4.10: PATCH] xen: revert commits 72a9b186292 and da72ff5bfcb0

2017-05-05 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 10:00:36AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification > through Xen PCI platform device") as the original analysis was wrong > that all the removed code isn't in use any more. As commit da72ff5bfcb0 > ("partially revert x

Re: [Xen-devel] [stable-4.9: PATCH] xen: revert commit 72a9b186292

2017-05-05 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification > through Xen PCI platform device") as the original analysis was wrong > that all the removed code isn't in use any more. > > It is still necessary for old Xen versio

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: do not re-use pirq number cached in pci device msi msg data

2017-05-03 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 04:12:29PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2017, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 03:59:15PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 May 2017, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > > > On 05/03/2017 02:19 PM, David Woo

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: do not re-use pirq number cached in pci device msi msg data

2017-05-03 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 03:59:15PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2017, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > On 05/03/2017 02:19 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 10:14 -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > >> On 02/22/2017 09:28 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > >>> On Tue, Feb

Re: [Xen-devel] [stable-4.10: PATCH] xen: revert commits 72a9b186292 and da72ff5bfcb0

2017-04-18 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:55:54PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:28:33PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > > On 13/04/17 18:24, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > > >> Revert commit 72a9b1862

Re: [Xen-devel] [stable-4.9: PATCH] xen: revert commit 72a9b186292

2017-04-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 03:06:53PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification > through Xen PCI platform device") as the original analysis was wrong > that all the removed code isn't in use any more. > > It is still necessary for old Xen versio

Re: [Xen-devel] [stable-4.10: PATCH] xen: revert commits 72a9b186292 and da72ff5bfcb0

2017-04-13 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:28:33PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 13/04/17 18:24, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification > >> through Xen PCI p

Re: [Xen-devel] [stable-4.10: PATCH] xen: revert commits 72a9b186292 and da72ff5bfcb0

2017-04-13 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification > through Xen PCI platform device") as the original analysis was wrong > that all the removed code isn't in use any more. As commit da72ff5bfcb0 > ("partially revert x

Re: [Xen-devel] Please apply "partially revert "xen: Remove event channel..."

2017-04-12 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 03:26:53PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 12/04/17 15:13, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 12:58:14PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> tl;dr: > >> Please apply > >> > >> da72ff5bfcb02c6ac8b169a7cf597a3c8e6c4de1

Re: [Xen-devel] Please apply "partially revert "xen: Remove event channel..."

2017-04-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 12:58:14PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > tl;dr: > Please apply > > da72ff5bfcb02c6ac8b169a7cf597a3c8e6c4de1 > partially revert "xen: Remove event channel notification through > Xen PCI platform device" > > to all stable branches which have a version of the or

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 09/14] jump_label: port __jump_table to linker tables

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:10:52PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Move the __jump_table from the a custom section solution > to a generic solution, this avoiding extra vmlinux.lds.h > customizations. > > This also demos the use of the .data linker table and of > the shared asm call push_section

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 08/14] jump_label: move guard #endif down where it belongs

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:10:51PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > The ending header guard is misplaced. This has no > functional change, this is just an eye-sore. > > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez > --- > include/linux/jump_label.h | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 06/14] firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:10:49PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > If you modify the target asm we currently do not force the > recompilation of the firmware files. The target asm is in > the firmware/Makefile, peg this file as a dependency to > require re-compilation of firmware targets when the

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 05/14] kbuild: enable option to force compile force-obj-y and force-lib-y

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:10:48PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Linux provides a rich array of features, enabling each feature > however increases the size of the kernel and there are many > features which users often want disabled. The traditional > solution to this problem is for each featur

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 04/14] tables.h: add linker table support

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:10:47PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > A linker table is a data structure that is stitched together from items > in multiple object files. Linux has historically implicitly used linker > tables for ages, however they were all built in an adhoc manner which > requires l

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 03/14] ranges.h: add helpers to build and identify Linux section ranges

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:10:46PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Section ranges are on one of the types of custom sections > types used in Linux. Argh, come on, proof-read your changelog text please! > This provides a series of helpers for > defining them and using them. Most importantly this

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 01/14] generic-sections: add section core helpers

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:10:44PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Linux makes extensive use of custom ELF header sections, > documentation for these are well scattered. Unify this > documentation in a central place and provide helpers to > build custom Linux sections. > > This also generalizes

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 6/6] tools: add userspace linker table sandbox

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:12:15PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Add a userspace sandbox to allow easy experimentation and > test extensions with linker tables, section ranges and the > new section core definitions. > > The userspace sandbox tries to mimic the Linux kernel development > flow a

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 5/6] tools: add __section() to compiler.h

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:12:14PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > This will be used later by the userspace linker table. same comment as the last time you used this sentence as a changelog text... thanks, greg k-h ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-dev

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 4/6] tools: expand export.h with VMLINUX_SYMBOL()

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:12:13PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > This will be used later by the linker-table userspace sandbox. > > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez > --- > tools/include/linux/export.h | 22 ++ > 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/tools/in

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 4/6] tools: expand export.h with VMLINUX_SYMBOL()

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:12:13PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > This will be used later by the linker-table userspace sandbox. That does not explan what this is, why it is needed, or anything at all :( ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xe

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 3/6] tools: add __used and enable to override

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:12:12PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > This adds __used, to be used later in the userspace linker-tables > sandbox. If any userspace applicaiton wants to override they can > add their own definition and then use include_next. I think you need a spell checker :(

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 2/6] tools: add init.h for tools

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:12:11PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Start off with just __ref -- we enalbe you to override, if you do > that then you can define your own. I have no idea what this means, do you? > The way you'd use this, if you > do override, is define your own __ref and then use

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 1/6] tools: add a userspace tools bug.h

2017-01-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:12:10PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > This will be used later by the userspace linker-tables sandbox. What is that? > As a convenience, include bug.h on kernel.h -- this is not done > on upstream kernel.h, however most header files do include bug.h > eventually, if

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tpm: Restore functionality to xen vtpm driver.

2016-12-22 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 02:41:52PM -0600, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote: > Functionality of the xen-tpmfront driver was lost secondary to > the introduction of xenbus multi-page support in the following > commit: > > ccc9d90a9a8b5c4ad7e9708ec41f75ff9e98d61d > > xenbus_client: Extend interface to suppo

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression due to "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival"

2016-12-14 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 03:14:54PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Michal Hocko writes ("Re: Regression due to "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on > compound page arrival""): > > On Wed 14-12-16 13:29:56, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > This commit breaks the test "test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemut-win7-amd64" in > > > t

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 PAT fixes for stable

2016-08-14 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 08:29:39AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Kani, Toshimitsu wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > The following patches fix two x86 PAT issues reported in 4.4 [1][2]. Can > > you please backport them up to 4.4?  > > Do they apply, build and boot cleanly in that order on top of v4

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v3 07/13] tables.h: add linker table support

2016-08-13 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 12:00:42AM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:23:34PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 07:04:52PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > Alright, how's this new description: > > > > > >

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v3 07/13] tables.h: add linker table support

2016-08-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 07:04:52PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Alright, how's this new description: > > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig > index cac3f096050d..73e4890c24c4 100644 > --- a/init/Kconfig > +++ b/init/Kconfig > @@ -53,6 +53,34 @@ config CROSS_COMPILE > need to set

Re: [Xen-devel] efd1535 xen-blkfront: don't call talk_to_blkback when already connected to blkback and 2a6f71a xen-blkfront: fix resume issues after a migration

2016-08-02 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:08:39AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > Heya! > > Please put on the 4.6 stable tree these two following patches: > > 2a6f71a xen-blkfront: fix resume issues after a migration > efd1535 xen-blkfront: don't call talk_to_blkback when already connected to > blkback

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table

2016-05-03 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 10:10:24AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Thanks! Can you confirm if any Android or Brillo builds are already using > > it? > > Also more importantly, any chance you can provide any technical > reasons why i

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table

2016-05-02 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:34:33AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:12:50AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: > >> On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 05:45 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> > This ports built-in firmware to use l

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 1/7] sections.h: add sections header to collect all section info

2016-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 09:06:03PM +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:23:29AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 05:45:53AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > + * Due to this file being licensed under the GPL there is contr

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 1/7] sections.h: add sections header to collect all section info

2016-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 05:45:53AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Linux makes extensive use of custom ELF header sections, > documentation for these are well scatterred. Unify this > documentation in a central place. Minor questions: > + > +You should have received a copy of the

Re: [Xen-devel] Patch "x86/irq: Probe for PIC presence before allocating descs for legacy IRQs" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

2015-12-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 02:17:30PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > > Monday, December 7, 2015, 1:54:35 PM, you wrote: > > > writes: > > >> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > >> > >> x86/irq: Probe for PIC presence before allocating descs for legacy IRQ

Re: [Xen-devel] Patch "x86/irq: Probe for PIC presence before allocating descs for legacy IRQs" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

2015-12-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 01:54:35PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > writes: > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > x86/irq: Probe for PIC presence before allocating descs for legacy IRQs > > > > to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at: > >

Re: [Xen-devel] Patch "x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

2015-08-13 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 06:38:46PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous > > This needs: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/g

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V4 1/3] usb: Add Xen pvUSB protocol description

2015-07-24 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:51:04AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 07/23/2015 09:08 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:46:17AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > >>On 07/23/2015 06:36 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >>>On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 06:04:39AM +0200, Juerg

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V4 1/3] usb: Add Xen pvUSB protocol description

2015-07-23 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:46:17AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 07/23/2015 06:36 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 06:04:39AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > >>On 07/23/2015 01:46 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >>>On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:53:23AM +0200, Juer

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V4 1/3] usb: Add Xen pvUSB protocol description

2015-07-22 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 06:04:39AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 07/23/2015 01:46 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:53:23AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > >>Add the definition of pvUSB protocol used between the pvUSB frontend in > >>a Xen domU and the pv

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V4 1/3] usb: Add Xen pvUSB protocol description

2015-07-22 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:53:23AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Add the definition of pvUSB protocol used between the pvUSB frontend in > a Xen domU and the pvUSB backend in a Xen driver domain (usually Dom0). > > This header was originally provided by Fujitsu for Xen based on Linux > 2.6.18. >

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V3 2/3] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB frontend (xen hcd)

2015-06-16 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 04:56:35PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Hmm, I'm beginning to question the value of that file. May be I should > just throw it away. Given that you are going to have to justify every one of them, and ensure that you are creating them in a race-free manner (I didn't look to

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V3 2/3] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB frontend (xen hcd)

2015-06-16 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 04:32:34PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Introduces the Xen pvUSB frontend. With pvUSB it is possible for a Xen > domU to communicate with a USB device assigned to that domU. The > communication is all done via the pvUSB backend in a driver domain > (usually Dom0) which is o

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V2 2/3] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB frontend

2015-06-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:33:46PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > On 12/06/15 17:20, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> Introduces the Xen pvUSB frontend. With pvUSB it is possible for a Xen > >> domU to communicate wi

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V2 1/3] usb: Add Xen pvUSB protocol description

2015-06-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 04:09:59PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > +enum usb_spec_version { > + USB_VER_UNKNOWN = 0, > + USB_VER_USB11, > + USB_VER_USB20, > + USB_VER_USB30, /* not supported yet */ > +}; > + You are defining a bunch of things in this .h file that start with "usb" ye

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V2 2/3] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB frontend

2015-06-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Introduces the Xen pvUSB frontend. With pvUSB it is possible for a Xen > domU to communicate with a USB device assigned to that domU. The > communication is all done via the pvUSB backend in a driver domain > (usually Dom0) which is o

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB backend

2015-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 02:31:08PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 03/02/2015 12:39 PM, David Vrabel wrote: > >On 26/02/15 13:35, Juergen Gross wrote: > >>Introduces the Xen pvUSB backend. With pvUSB it is possible for a Xen > >>domU to communicate with a USB device assigned to that domU. The > >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for stable] x86/spinlocks/paravirt: Fix memory corruption on unlock

2015-02-24 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:49:13PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > On 02/24/2015 08:17 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >* Greg KH wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 02:54:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > >>>Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag afte

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for stable] x86/spinlocks/paravirt: Fix memory corruption on unlock

2015-02-24 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:47:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 02:54:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > > > Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. > > > As explained by Linus currently it

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for stable] x86/spinlocks/paravirt: Fix memory corruption on unlock

2015-02-24 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 02:54:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. > As explained by Linus currently it does: > prev = *lock; > add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); > > /* add_smp()

Re: [Xen-devel] backport a4dba130891271084344c12537731542ec77cb85 to 3.16+

2015-01-27 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 06:09:33PM +, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to request a backport of the following commit: > > > commit a4dba130891271084344c12537731542ec77cb85 > Author: Stefano Stabellini > Date: Fri Nov 21 11:07:39 2014 + > > xen/arm/arm64: introduc