Re: Support of lguest?

[Juergen Gross]

On 15/05/17 16:22, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Lguest and Xen pv-guests are the only users of pv_mmu_ops (with the
>> one exception of the .exit_mmap member, which is being used by Xen
>> HVM-guests, too).
>>
>> As it is possible now to build a kernel without Xen pv-guest support
>> while keeping PVH and PVHVM support, I thought about putting most
>> pv_mmu_ops functions in #ifdef CONFIG_XEN_HAS_PVMMU sections.
> 
> There is an ongoing work to enable PV TLB flushing for Hyper-V guests:
> http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/2017-April/104411.html
> 
> it utilizes .flush_tlb_others member in pv_mmu_ops.
> 
> hopefully, this work will be merged in 4.13.

Thanks for the information. I'll keep .flush_tlb_others member outside
the #ifdef section.


Juergen