Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen: Kconfig: nest Xen guest options

From: Jason Andryuk
Date: Thu Oct 15 2020 - 10:52:53 EST


On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 5:42 AM Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 14.10.20 19:53, Jason Andryuk wrote:
> > Moving XEN_512GB allows it to nest under XEN_PV. That also allows
> > XEN_PVH to nest under XEN as a sibling to XEN_PV and XEN_PVHVM giving:
> >
> > [*] Xen guest support
> > [*] Xen PV guest support
> > [*] Limit Xen pv-domain memory to 512GB
> > [*] Xen PV Dom0 support
>
> This has currently a wrong text/semantics:
>
> It should be split to CONFIG_XEN_DOM0 and CONFIG_XEN_PV_DOM0.
>
> Otherwise the backends won't be enabled per default for a PVH-only
> config meant to be Dom0-capable.
>
> You don't have to do that in your patches if you don't want to, but
> I wanted to mention it with you touching this area of Kconfig.

Yes, good point. I had not considered that.

> > [*] Xen PVHVM guest support
> > [*] Xen PVH guest support
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Jason