Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add privileged/unprivileged kernel feature indication

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 05.07.11 at 15:55, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:48 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> With our switching away from supporting 32-bit Dom0 operation, users
>> complained that attempts (perhaps due to lack of knowledge of that
>> change) to boot the no longer privileged kernel in Dom0 resulted in
>> apparently silent failure. To make the mismatch explicit and visible,
>> add feature flags that the kernel can set to indicate operation in
>> what modes it supports. For backward compatibility, absence of both
>> feature flags is taken to indicate a kernel that may be capable of
>> operating in both modes.
> 
> While I agree that this is a useful change I think you should also try
> and ensure that your bootloader configuration tool tries not to add
> invalid combinations to the configuration. For example grub2's
> "update-grub" command checks for CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST=y before
> creating a dom0 style entry. IIRC grub1 did the same (although that may
> have been Debian specific).

That I would consider completely bogus - the boot loader should not
have a need to know *anything* about the kind of kernel it boots.

Jan


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