Re: [GIT PULL] xen: branch for v5.9-rc4

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 06.09.20 19:01, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 9:44 PM Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It contains a small series for fixing a problem with Xen PVH guests
> > when running as backends (e.g. as dom0). Mapping other guests' memory
> > now is working via ZONE_DEVICE, thus not requiring to abuse the memory
> > hotplug functionality for that purpose.
> Tssk. This really isn't a bug-fix, it's clearly new development.
>
> I'm going to let it slide since it seems so contained, but don't do this.
Thanks for taking it.

I agree I should have spelled out the nature of the patch more clearly
and add more reasoning why you might consider taking it.


Juergen