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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: allow grant table originating pte-sto have their guest available bits set


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:09:51 +0000
  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:10:13 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: allow grant table originating pte-sto have their guest available bits set

On 4/11/08 11:58, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>> Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 04.11.08 12:46 >>>
>> Applied, thanks. I assume backport at least to 3.3 would be desirable?
> 
> We would of course very much appreciate if you would do that, but to be
> honest I didn't really expect you to (as it's not a bug fix in that sense,
> i.e.
> the kernel can get away without this, though of course not without some
> extra effort and overhead).

I assumed it might be required for your 2.6.27 to work. Still, 3.3.1 is
going to be a big release (in terms of churn) as all our x.y.1 have been
relative to x.y.0. And the change is pretty small...

 -- Keir



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