Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] dom_cow is needed for mem-sharing only

[Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 2:25 AM Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>> On 02.06.19 at 02:40, <tamas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 3:35 AM Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> A couple of adjustments are needed to code checking for dom_cow, but
> >> since there are pretty few it is probably better to adjust those than
> >> to set up and keep around a never used domain.
> >>
> >> Take the opportunity and tighten a BUG_ON() in emul-priv-op.c:read_cr().
> >> (Arguably this perhaps shouldn't be a BUG_ON() in the first place.)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> While for now this avoids creating the domain on Arm only, Tamas'es
> >> patch switching to CONFIG_MEM_SHARING will make x86 leverage this too.
> >
> > perhaps it would be better to have this patch be applied after my
> > patch? You already acked that one and it could be applied separately
> > from the series that I've sent it as part of.
>
> Oh, I didn't realize it is entirely independent of the earlier patches.
> It would help to point such out in the cover letter, requiring there
> to be one in the first place.

Right, I should have added a cover letter. That "series" is more like
an assorted collection of fixes rather then a series in a strict
sense.

Tamas

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