Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] x86/hvm: remove default ioreq server (again)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 03.09.18 at 18:46, <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My recent patch [1] to qemu-xen-traditional removes the last use of the
> 'default' ioreq server in Xen. (This is a catch-all ioreq server that is
> used if no explicitly registered I/O range is targetted).
> 
> This patch can be applied once that patch is committed, to remove the
> (>100 lines of) redundant code in Xen.
> 
> The previous version of this patch caused a QEMU build failure. This has
> been fixed by extending the #ifdef around deprecated HVM_PARAM declarations
> to __XEN_TOOLS__ as well as __XEN__.
> 
> NOTE: The removal of the special case for HVM_PARAM_DM_DOMAIN in
>       hvm_allow_set_param() is not directly related to removal of
>       default ioreq servers. It could have been cleaned up at any time
>       after commit 9a422c03 "x86/hvm: stop passing explicit domid to
>       hvm_create_ioreq_server()". It is now added to the new
>       deprecated sets introduced by this patch.
> 
> [1] 
> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-08/msg00270.html 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>



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