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



On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:06:44AM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> 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).

The hunk for 32-bit should indeed only go in once we get a Tested-by.
Please let me know if there is anything else needed for this patch.

  Luis

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