On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:06:12AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 08.04.14 at 19:25, <kon...@kernel.org> wrote: > > --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c > > +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c > > @@ -3470,6 +3470,9 @@ static long hvm_vcpu_op( > > case VCPUOP_stop_singleshot_timer: > > case VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info: > > case VCPUOP_register_vcpu_time_memory_area: > > + case VCPUOP_down: > > + case VCPUOP_up: > > + case VCPUOP_is_up: > > This, if I checked it properly, leaves only VCPUOP_initialise, > VCPUOP_send_nmi, and VCPUOP_get_physid disallowed for HVM. > None of which look inherently bad to be used by HVM (but > VCPUOP_initialise certainly would need closer checking), so I > wonder whether either the wrapper shouldn't be dropped altogether > or at least be converted from a white list approach to a black list one.
I was being conservative here because I did not want to allow the other ones without at least testing it. Perhaps that can be done as a seperate patch and this just as a bug-fix? > > Jan > -- 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/
