Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 1/5] xen/x86: Make hap_get_allocation accessible

[Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.k.lengyel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 6:17 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 24.02.2020 16:20, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:49:19AM -0800, Tamas K Lengyel wrote:
> >> During VM forking we'll copy the parent domain's parameters to the client,
> >> including the HAP shadow memory setting that is used for storing the 
> >> domain's
> >> EPT. We'll copy this in the hypervisor instead doing it during toolstack 
> >> launch
> >> to allow the domain to start executing and unsharing memory before (or
> >> even completely without) the toolstack.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> And with maintainership now having changed
>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>
> > I would also be fine with this merged into the respective patch where
> > hap_get_allocation gets called.
>
> Indeed that's the reason why this hasn't gone in yet, I think.
> There's no use from putting it in without also putting in the
> patch where this is actually needed. In fact it introduces a
> "stray lack of static" instance until then, which typically we
> try to clean up.

I can certainly fold it in to the larger patch if that's preferred.

Tamas

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel