On 01/01/14 04:35, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > From: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rat...@oracle.com> > > PVH is a PV guest with a twist - there are certain things > that work in it like HVM and some like PV. There is > a similar mode - PVHVM where we run in HVM mode with > PV code enabled - and this patch explores that. > > The most notable PV interfaces are the XenBus and event channels. > > We will piggyback on how the event channel mechanism is > used in PVHVM - that is we want the normal native IRQ mechanism > and we will install a vector (hvm callback) for which we > will call the event channel mechanism. > > This means that from a pvops perspective, we can use > native_irq_ops instead of the Xen PV specific. Albeit in the > future we could support pirq_eoi_map. But that is > a feature request that can be shared with PVHVM. > > Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rat...@oracle.com> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com> David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
