>>> On 08.08.16 at 15:42, <george.dun...@citrix.com> wrote: > On 05/08/16 16:35, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> On 04.08.16 at 17:49, <konrad.w...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> In general, the hooks provide flexibility when having to deal with >>> unforeseen cases, but their application should be rarely required (< >>> 10%)." >> >> But the greater flexibility of course comes with increased chances >> of screwing things up. I'm therefore still not entirely convinced that >> such XSAs wouldn't then better not be live patched. > > But this functionality is optional, right? So although I tend to agree > with you, we can let the person / organization preparing the patch take > that risk if they want to?
That's a valid point, albeit I think patch producer and patch consumer might have different views, and the patch consumer may not know (or even know to care) whether (s)he's got handed a patch with or without use of hooks. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel