Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 00/22] xen/arm64: Add support for 64KB page in Linux

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 09:25 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 10:51:34AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > (trimming and reordering To/Cc)
> > 
> > On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 16:15 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> > > On 30/09/15 11:45, Julien Grall wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granularity.
> > > > Although,
> > > > Xen
> > > > hypercall interface and PV protocol are always based on 4KB page
> > > > granularity.
> > > > 
> > > > Any attempt to boot a Linux guest with 64KB pages enabled will
> > > > result
> > > > to a
> > > > guest crash.
> > > > 
> > > > This series is a first attempt to allow those Linux running with
> > > > the
> > > > current
> > > > hypercall interface and PV protocol.
> > > > 
> > > > This solution has been chosen because we want to run Linux 64KB in
> > > > released
> > > > Xen ARM version or/and platform using an old version of Linux DOM0.
> > > 
> > > Applied to for-linus-4.4, thanks.
> > > 
> > > Boris, can you kick off a set of tests for this branch, please?
> > 
> > @Boris,
> > 
> > Would it be possible to have the results of this test framework posted
> > to
> > the list, like osstest does?
> 
> It spews emails per machine per night. There are around 10 of them and
> they each look like this:

OK, perhaps a little bit too raw for xen-devel then ;-)

> Ian, I wrote this long time ago because:
> 
>  - I want the serial logs in the email so I can look at them from
>    my email client.
>  - They were simple smoke tests and didn't need huge infrastructure.
> 
>  - And the reporting is not as snazy as OSSTest.

Fair enough.

You could consider sending them to osstest-output@[0] which already gets
all the additional spam from osstest which is deemed too much for xen
-devel, but that is only really useful for sending links to the archive
when discussing on xen-devel, so probably not worth it.

Cheers,
Ian.

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