Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] x86: paravirt related cleanup

2017-08-16 Thread Rusty Russell
r it to be removed with the paravirt infrastructure itself, but I think that's getting closer anyway. Acked-by: Rusty Russell > In case the patches make it to the tree there is quite some potential > for further simplification of paravirt stuff. Especially most of the > pv operations can be

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 07/14] tools/lguest: force disable tboot and apm

2016-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
; > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Nice, thanks! Acked-by: Rusty Russell Cheers, Rusty. ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] paravirt: remove paravirt ops pmd_update[_defer] and pte_update_defer

2015-11-24 Thread Rusty Russell
Juergen Gross writes: > Ping? Acked-by: Rusty Russell Cheers, Rusty. ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments

2015-06-04 Thread Rusty Russell
"H. Peter Anvin" writes: > On 06/04/2015 12:55 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: >> >> Yeah, hard cases make bad law. >> >> I'm not too unhappy with this fix; ideally we'd rename save_fl and >> restore_fl to save_eflags_if and restore_eflags_if

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments

2015-06-04 Thread Rusty Russell
Andrew Cooper writes: > On 04/06/15 07:38, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 06/03/2015 02:31 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> There appears to be no formal statement of what pv_irq_ops.save_fl() is >>> supposed to return precisely. Native returns the full flags, while lguest >>> and >>> Xen only return t

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments

2015-04-21 Thread Rusty Russell
duced. >> >> Use native_save_fl() instead, which will obtain an accurate view of the AC >> flag. That should work for lguest. Indeed, it does (in practice those bits are 0). Tested-by: Rusty Russell (lguest) Thanks, Rusty. >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper >> CC: T

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] virtual: Documentation: simplify and generalize paravirt_ops.txt

2015-02-11 Thread Rusty Russell
"Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > The general documentation we have for pv_ops is currenty present > on the IA64 docs, but since this documentation covers IA64 xen > enablement and IA64 Xen support got ripped out a while ago > through commit d52eefb47 present since v3.14