Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/7] Revert "xen: Introduce 'xen_nopv' to disable PV extensions for HVM guests."

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 24.06.19 14:02, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> > This reverts commit 8d693b911bb9c57009c24cb1772d205b84c7985c.
> > 
> > Instead we use an unified parameter 'nopv' for all the hypervisor
> > platforms.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

You're really sure that you want to break existing setups which might use
that already?

Command line parameters are ABI. You can map xen_nopv to the new shiny nopv
implementation but removing it?

Your decision, but you've been told :)

Thanks,

        tglx

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