Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Xen PV on HVM fixes and improvements

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Feb 25 2011 - 14:34:00 EST


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 05:11:33PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi all,
> this patch series is a collection of fixes and improvements for Linux
> running as Xen PV on HVM guest.
> Changes to the previous version:

Looks good to me. I am surprised that it was that easy to get the balloon
code to work under HVM..

>
> - patch 5 and 6 have been squashed together;
>
> - xen_hvm_spinlock_init has been merged into xen_hvm_smp_prepare_cpus.
>
>
> The list of patches with diffstat follows:
>
> Stefano Stabellini (6):
> xen: no need to delay xen_setup_shutdown_event for hvm guests anymore
> xen: do not use xen_info on HVM, set pv_info name to "Xen HVM"
> xen-blkfront: handle Xen major numbers other than XENVBD
> xen: make the ballon driver work for hvm domains
> xen: PV on HVM: support PV spinlocks and IPIs
> xen: fix compile issue if XEN is enabled but XEN_PVHVM is disabled
>
> arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 6 ++-
> arch/x86/xen/smp.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/xen/suspend.c | 2 +
> arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h | 2 +
> drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> drivers/xen/balloon.c | 14 ++++--
> drivers/xen/manage.c | 17 ++------
> drivers/xen/platform-pci.c | 3 -
> include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h | 21 ++++++++++
> 9 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> A branch with these patches on 2.6.38-rc6 is available here:
>
> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git 2.6.38-rc6-pvhvm
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefano
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