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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Re-introduce VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info back for PVHVM guests. (v1)



On 17/04/13 17:23, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 17.04.13 at 17:31, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey Jan,

While I've been digging around CPU hotplug for PVHVM I noticed an oddity
when running with different versions of hypervisor. I found out that the
big change you did in Xen 4.2 of splitting the PV and HVM arch structure
introduce the regression wherein VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info will not
work for PVHVM guests.

Interestingly enough if I introduce this back to the hypervisor the
CPU hotplug path gets even more broken for PVHVM :-).. But that is a Linux
problem.
Except that we really don't want to be trashing people's existing,
working versions of Linux, especially if they're distro-provided
kernels.  I haven't tested a distro kernel yet, but for my own
locally-built 2.6.37 kernel, this c/s breaks it running in PVHVM mode.
Hmm - that's minimally a reason to not backport it to 4.2, but
perhaps even a reason to revert it from staging.

OK sorry about that -- my results were spurious, due to a non-deterministic bug that seems to have been in for a while. (It looks like missing interrupts of some kind, so it may even be the RTC c/s... I'll check that tomorrow.)

 -George

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