Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] x86/compat: Test both PV and PVH guests for compat mode

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/11/2015 05:19 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 24.07.15 at 19:54, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 07/23/2015 10:07 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > Plus - is this in line with what the tools are doing? Aren't they
> > > assuming !PV <=> native format context? I.e. don't you need
> > > to treat differently v->domain == current->domain and its
> > > opposite? Roger btw. raised a similar question on IRC earlier
> > > today...
> > Not sure I understand this. You mean for copying 64-bit guest's info
> > into 32-bit dom0?
> Basically yes - tool stack and guest invocations may need to
> behave differently.

This being PVH-"classic" it follows exactly the PV path (both in tools 
and the hypervisor). Wouldn't PV be broken then as well?
-boris

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