Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: change the sizes of fields in the HVM start info layout to be 64bits

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 10:30:25AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 08.04.16 at 18:01, <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [PATCH] xen: change the sizes of fields in the 
> > HVM 
> > start info layout to be 64bits"):
> >> On 08/04/16 16:47, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> >> > At the moment the only consumer of this structure is x86, but other 
> >> > arches
> >> > might also use it, so make all the fields 64bits. On x86 Xen will still 
> >> > try
> >> > to place everything below the 4GiB boundary, but that might not be 
> >> > feasible
> >> > in other arches.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > Requested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> >> 
> >> Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> 
> >> I hope never to need to use this for x86, but leaving some wiggleroom is
> >> probably best.  If the very worst happens, the guest can just enable PAE
> >> paging to get access to the data.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Queued.
> 
> And already applied as I see. I think rushing things in like this is
> not a solution, no matter that we want to freeze the tree today.
> Changes like this should be free to go in as de-facto bug fixes
> after the freeze date.
> 

Yes, I'm fine with this changing after the freeze. I certainly don't
want to release a wrong interface.

Wei.

> Jan
> 
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