Re:Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Xen PV on HVM fixes and improvements

[topperxin <topperxin@xxxxxxx>]

At 2011-03-03 15:58:28ï"Pasi KÃrkkÃinen" <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:29:38AM +0800, topperxin wrote:
>>    Hi stefano,
>>       It's very great of your work.I think it't useful
>>    to me, I have checked it out, and I will study it.
>>      What I care mostly is the pv-on-hvm drivers, now
>>    my main work is port pvonhvm drivers to various guest
>>    OS, no matter what OS version, such as ubuntu 10.10,
>>    debian 505 etc. But I found this work is difficult &
>>    boring to me, I can't find a general method which can
>>    easily port the pvonhvm drivers to all kinds guest os.
>>    Do you have any good ideas?
>>       I found there are not platform-pci source in your
>>    project, as we know, in the old pvonhvm drivers version,
>>    platform-pci module is important, it was used to establish
>>    the communication mechanism, such as xenbus, evtchn,etc,
>>    could you please tell me how can you get rid of it? and how
>>    can you substitute platform-pci, with which?
>>        Thanks a lot.
>
>Hey,
>
>Not sure if you've seen this wiki page..it has some links to
>various versions of pv-on-hvm drivers for linux:
>
>http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenLinuxPVonHVMdrivers
>
>-- Pasi
>

Thank you Pasi, I have ever read that, but I still feel difficult to extract a easy way, ok 

perhaps I should study that page further.
>> 
>>  At 2011-02-26 01:11:33**"Stefano Stabellini" <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>  >Hi all,
>>  >this patch series is a collection of fixes and improvements for Linux
>>  >running as Xen PV on HVM guest.
>>  >Changes to the previous version:
>>  >
>>  >- patch 5 and 6 have been squashed together;
>>  >
>>  >- xen_hvm_spinlock_init has been merged into xen_hvm_smp_prepare_cpus.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >The list of patches with diffstat follows:
>>  >
>>  >Stefano Stabellini (6):
>>  >      xen: no need to delay xen_setup_shutdown_event for hvm guests anymore
>>  >      xen: do not use xen_info on HVM, set pv_info name to "Xen HVM"
>>  >      xen-blkfront: handle Xen major numbers other than XENVBD
>>  >      xen: make the ballon driver work for hvm domains
>>  >      xen: PV on HVM: support PV spinlocks and IPIs
>>  >      xen: fix compile issue if XEN is enabled but XEN_PVHVM is disabled
>>  >
>>  > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c         |    6 ++-
>>  > arch/x86/xen/smp.c               |   38 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  > arch/x86/xen/suspend.c           |    2 +
>>  > arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h           |    2 +
>>  > drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c     |   79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  > drivers/xen/balloon.c            |   14 ++++--
>>  > drivers/xen/manage.c             |   17 ++------
>>  > drivers/xen/platform-pci.c       |    3 -
>>  > include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h |   21 ++++++++++
>>  > 9 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>  >
>>  >A branch with these patches on 2.6.38-rc6 is available here:
>>  >
>>  >git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git 2.6.38-rc6-pvhvm
>>  >
>>  >Cheers,
>>  >
>>  >Stefano
>>  >
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