Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.10.0-shim-comet] x86/guest: use the vcpu_info area from shared_info

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/17/2018 11:16 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> George Dunlap writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.10.0-shim-comet] x86/guest: use the 
> vcpu_info area from shared_info"):
>> Without this patch, people need to reboot their L0 hypervisor in order
>> to use Comet.
> 
> People running 4.10.  On 4.8 this presumably has no benefit.

On the contrary -- exactly the same arguments apply.  There were *no*
hypervisor patches as part of the 4.8 PVH backport; the only patches
between staging-4.8 and the 4.8 Comet tag that touch the hypervisor are
the pvshim-specific patches; so the same arguments apply both to 4.10
and 4.8.

 -George

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