On 29/03/2021 17:23, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 29.03.2021 18:12, George Dunlap wrote: >>> On Mar 25, 2021, at 7:08 AM, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: >>> On 24.03.2021 18:26, George Dunlap wrote: >>>> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> >>>> --- >>>> Missed one from my list when creating the other series >>>> >>>> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com> >>>> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> >>>> CC: Roger Pau Monne <roger....@citrix.com> >>>> --- >>>> CHANGELOG.md | 1 + >>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md >>>> index 15a22d6bde..49832ae017 100644 >>>> --- a/CHANGELOG.md >>>> +++ b/CHANGELOG.md >>>> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a >>>> Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) >>>> - x86_emulate: Expanded testing for several instruction classes >>>> - CI loop: Add Alpine Linux, Ubuntu Focal targets; drop CentOS 6 >>>> - CI loop: Add dom0less aarch64 smoke test >>>> + - Factored out HVM-specific shadow code, allowing PV shim to be slimmer >>> But shadow code doesn't get included by default in shim-exclusive >>> builds (and others are unlikely to disable HVM). >> Can you propose some better text please? > Does this need mentioning here in the first place?
I would recommend not. We've been doing incremental improvements for the shim for several releases now, and in this case, we're literally talking a few kb of code. As we already align to 2M boundaries for superpage reasons, there almost certainly isn't actually a reduction in runtime size. ~Andrew
