Re: [PATCH] xen: don't use privcmd_call() from xen_mc_flush()

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Tue Aug 07 2018 - 09:11:41 EST


On 13/06/18 11:58, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Using privcmd_call() for a singleton multicall seems to be wrong, as
> privcmd_call() is using stac()/clac() to enable hypervisor access to
> Linux user space.
>
> Add a new xen_single_call() function to be use for that purpose.
>
> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Boris, any objections?


Juergen