Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preempted on 64-bit

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/01/15 08:35, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 27.01.15 at 02:51, <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Even if David told you this would be acceptable, I have to question
> an abstract model of fixing issues on only 64-bit kernels - this may
> be acceptable for distro purposes, but seems hardly the right
> approach for upstream. If 32-bit ones are to become deliberately
> broken, the XEN config option should become dependent on !X86_32.

I'd rather have something omitted (keeping the current behaviour) than
something that has not been tested at all.

Obviously it would be preferable to to fix both 32-bit and 64-bit x86
(and ARM as well) but I'm not going to block an important bug fix for
the majority use case (64-bit x86).

David

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