Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

El 22/06/15 a les 20.05, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ha escrit:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 06:55:12PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> given that this patch series is actually using the Xen "hvm" builder, I
>> take that all the PVH code paths in Xen or the guest kernel are not
>> actually used, correct? This is more like PV on HVM without QEMU, right?
> 
> Are you saying it should be called now 'HVM-diet' ? Or 'HVMlite' instead
> of PVH since it is looking at this from the HVM perspective instead of PVH?
> 
> 
>>
>> Do you think think this can work for Dom0 too?
>>
>> Would that make all the PVH stuff in Xen and Linux effectively useless?
> 
> No. The AP bootup is still the same. So would all the hypercalls I think.

This is something that we have not discussed, but for HVM domains the
vCPU initialize hypercall only allows starting the vCPU in 32bit mode
with paging disabled (just like how we are starting the BSP). I'm fine
with that and I don't mind implementing a small trampoline for APs also,
but would like to hear opinions about it.

Roger.


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