Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] xen: re-enable booting as Xen PVH guest

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki
<rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/19/2018 11:09 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>
>> The Xen PVH boot protocol passes vital information to the kernel via
>> a start_info block. One of the data transferred is the physical address
>> of the RSDP table.
>>
>> Unfortunately PVH support in the kernel didn't use that passed address
>> for RSDP, but relied on the legacy mechanism searching for the RSDP in
>> low memory. After a recent change in Xen putting the RSDP to a higher
>> address booting as PVH guest is now failing.
>>
>> This small series repairs that by passing the RSDP address from the
>> start_info block to ACPI handling.
>>
>> Changes in V3:
>> - instead of using a weak function add a function pointer to x86_init
>>    for obtaining the RSDP address
>>
>> Juergen Gross (3):
>>    acpi: introduce acpi_arch_get_root_pointer() for getting rsdp address
>>    x86/acpi: add a new x86_init_acpi structure to x86_init_ops
>>    x86/xen: add pvh specific rsdp address retrieval function
>>
>>   arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h     |  7 +++++++
>>   arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h |  9 +++++++++
>>   arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c      |  5 +++++
>>   arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pvh.c    | 14 +++++++++++---
>>   drivers/acpi/osl.c              |  5 ++++-
>>   include/linux/acpi.h            |  7 +++++++
>>   6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
> The series is fine by me:
>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Don't know much about Xen, though the ACPI / x86 stubs are exactly
what I'm wanting!
Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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