[Xen-devel] [PATCH] use compat_*() for all 32-bit hypercalls.

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is this a problem for 4.1 as well, or are the lockups in HVMloader
xenbus in code that's been introduced since then?

 -George

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The attached patch switches the handling of sched_op, get_xen_version
> and set_timer_op hypercalls from 32-bit HVM guests to use the compat
> versions of the handlers.  As far as I can see this is correcting an
> oversight: other hypercalls are already redirected to the compat
> versions and having a mix of translated and untranslated seems like the
> worst option.
>
> The only one of these three that's likely to cause trouble is schedop
> (poll) which almost always happens to work if you call the wrong
> version.  However the interlock against concurrent event arrival
> doesn't work, which was leading to lockups in the HVMloader xenbus code.
>
> Cc'ing various people who I know are responsible for HVM PV drivers just
> in case any ofthem have hardcoded this broken interface into client
> code.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>
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> Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
> Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)
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