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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: remove shadow dom0 command line option



On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 06:09:43PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 24/03/17 18:07, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 05:51:41PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> >> It has been broken for years and couldn't possibly be configured after
> >> 4045953.
> >>
> >> Remove code and documentation.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown | 13 +------------
> >>  xen/arch/x86/dom0_build.c           | 10 +---------
> >>  xen/arch/x86/pv/dom0_build.c        |  5 -----
> >>  xen/arch/x86/setup.c                |  3 +--
> >>  4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown 
> >> b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
> >> index bdbdb8a53b..f86b1bb7d2 100644
> >> --- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
> >> +++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
> >> @@ -652,11 +652,6 @@ restrictions set up here. Note that the values to be 
> >> specified here are
> >>  ACPI PXM ones, not Xen internal node numbers. `relaxed` sets up vCPU
> >>  affinities to prefer but be not limited to the specified node(s).
> >>  
> >> -### dom0\_shadow
> >> -> `= <boolean>`
> >> -
> >> -This option is deprecated, please use `dom0=shadow` instead.
> >> -
> >>  ### dom0\_vcpus\_pin
> >>  > `= <boolean>`
> >>  
> >> @@ -665,7 +660,7 @@ This option is deprecated, please use `dom0=shadow` 
> >> instead.
> >>  Pin dom0 vcpus to their respective pcpus
> >>  
> >>  ### dom0
> >> -> `= List of [ pvh | shadow ]`
> >> +> `= List of [ pvh ]`
> > 
> > The shadow option here needs to be kept, in case someone wants to create a
> > PVHv2 Dom0 with shadow instead of hap.
> 
> You can't change the meaning of "dom0=shadow" from "Make a PV dom0
> running in autotranslate mode" to "Make a PVH dom0 running in shadow
> mode rather than HAP". :-)

My thought as well.

The semantics can't change.

Shadow PVH dom0 is fine, but it should be added in another patch.

Wei.

> 
>  -George
> 

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