Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] runstate/time area registration by (guest) physical address

[Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Roger,

> On Oct 2, 2023, at 23:11, Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Since it was indicated that introducing specific new vCPU ops may be
> beneficial independent of the introduction of a fully physical-
> address-based ABI flavor, here we go. There continue to be a few open
> questions throughout the series, resolving of which was one of the main
> goals of the earlier postings.
> 
> v5 adds one vm-fork specific pre-patch that does simply the introduced
> code later on.  It does also fix a vm-fork bug.
> 
> Patches 1 and 6 are missing and Ack from the mem-sharing maintainer.
> 
> Whole series will need a Release-Ack.

We agreed in [1] that this series is a good candidate for 4.18, so for the whole
series,

Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/0be1e32f-5600-7b3a-8d72-84297a1ebee0@xxxxxxxx/

Kind regards,
Henry

> 
> Thanks, Roger.
> 
> Jan Beulich (9):
>  x86/shim: zap runstate and time area handles during shutdown
>  domain: GADDR based shared guest area registration alternative -
>    teardown
>  domain: update GADDR based runstate guest area
>  x86: update GADDR based secondary time area
>  x86/mem-sharing: copy GADDR based shared guest areas
>  domain: map/unmap GADDR based shared guest areas
>  domain: introduce GADDR based runstate area registration alternative
>  x86: introduce GADDR based secondary time area registration
>    alternative
>  common: convert vCPU info area registration
> 
> Roger Pau Monne (1):
>  mem_sharing/fork: do not attempt to populate vcpu_info page
> 
> xen/arch/x86/domain.c             |  33 +++
> xen/arch/x86/include/asm/domain.h |   3 +
> xen/arch/x86/include/asm/shared.h |  19 +-
> xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c     |  73 +++----
> xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c            |  10 +-
> xen/arch/x86/time.c               |  34 +++-
> xen/arch/x86/x86_64/asm-offsets.c |   2 +-
> xen/arch/x86/x86_64/domain.c      |  36 ++++
> xen/arch/x86/x86_64/traps.c       |   2 +-
> xen/common/compat/domain.c        |   2 +-
> xen/common/domain.c               | 324 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> xen/include/public/vcpu.h         |  19 ++
> xen/include/xen/domain.h          |  12 +-
> xen/include/xen/sched.h           |   8 +-
> xen/include/xen/shared.h          |   3 +-
> 15 files changed, 440 insertions(+), 140 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.42.0
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