Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.10.0-shim-comet] x86/guest: use the vcpu_info area from shared_info

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Dunlap writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.10.0-shim-comet] x86/guest: use the 
vcpu_info area from shared_info"):
> Without this patch, people need to reboot their L0 hypervisor in order
> to use Comet.

People running 4.10.  On 4.8 this presumably has no benefit.

> The risk of checking it into the Comet branches but not staging is that
> if people update their shim to "Rudolph" (4.11) without rebooting their
> host, things may unexpectedly not work.  I think that's something we can
> live with.

People won't expect to do that because of the way the tools and
hypervisor already have to be in lockstep.

Ian.

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