Re: [PATCH v12 07/18] xen/pvh: Setup up shared_info.

[David Vrabel]

On 01/01/14 04:35, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> From: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> For PVHVM the shared_info structure is provided via the same way
> as for normal PV guests (see include/xen/interface/xen.h).
> 
> That is during bootup we get 'xen_start_info' via the %esi register
> in startup_xen. Then later we extract the 'shared_info' from said
> structure (in xen_setup_shared_info) and start using it.
> 
> The 'xen_setup_shared_info' is all setup to work with auto-xlat
> guests, but there are two functions which it calls that are not:
> xen_setup_mfn_list_list and xen_setup_vcpu_info_placement.
> This patch modifies those to work in auto-xlat mode.
[...]
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> @@ -1147,8 +1147,9 @@ void xen_setup_vcpu_info_placement(void)
>  		xen_vcpu_setup(cpu);
>  
>  	/* xen_vcpu_setup managed to place the vcpu_info within the
> -	   percpu area for all cpus, so make use of it */
> -	if (have_vcpu_info_placement) {
> +	 * percpu area for all cpus, so make use of it. Note that for
> +	 * PVH we want to use native IRQ mechanism. */
> +	if (have_vcpu_info_placement && !xen_pvh_domain()) {
>  		pv_irq_ops.save_fl = __PV_IS_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_save_fl_direct);
>  		pv_irq_ops.restore_fl = __PV_IS_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_restore_fl_direct);
>  		pv_irq_ops.irq_disable = __PV_IS_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_irq_disable_direct);

Should this be in a separate patch: "xen/pvh: use native irq ops"?

David
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