On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:08:15PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote: > Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport > the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow people > able to run PVH kernels to switch their PV guests directly to PVH > guests; and second, eventually enable the backport of patches which > will enable transparent changing of PV guests into PVH guests. > > All of the hypervisor support seems to have existed already in 4.8, so > the only backports involve toolstack patches.
Thanks for looking into this. My general opinion given those are toolstack only patches is that if it works it's fine. > I've put up two trees for a first-cut backport of the PVH > functionality, to 4.9 and 4.8 here: > > git://xenbits.xen.org/people/gdunlap/xen.git > > Branches out/pvh-backport/4.8/v1 and out/pvh-backport/4.9/v1 > > Below are the patches backported from 4.10 to 4.9 (23 patches total): > > Roger Pau Monne libxl: add is_default checkers for string and timer_mode > types > Roger Pau Monne libxl: introduce a way to mark fields as deprecated in > the idl This or one of the related patches is going to add fields in domain_build_info, which will break the ABI. Is this expected/OK? Roger. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
