Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] xen: add acpi_arch_get_root_pointer() for pvh guests

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Thu Jan 25 2018 - 10:46:26 EST




On 01/25/2018 09:36 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
Add acpi_arch_get_root_pointer() for Xen PVH guests to communicate
the address of the RSDP table given to the kernel via Xen start info.

This makes the kernel boot again in PVH mode after on recent Xen the
RSDP was moved to higher addresses. So up to that change it was pure
luck that the legacy method to locate the RSDP was working when
running as PVH mode.

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.11
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>