Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V9] vm_event: Allow subscribing to write events for specific MSR-s

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Razvan Cojocaru writes ("Re: [PATCH V9] vm_event: Allow subscribing to write 
events for specific MSR-s"):
> On 05/13/2016 02:35 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>> On 06.05.16 at 16:33, <rcojocaru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Previously, subscribing to MSR write events was an all-or-none
> >> approach, with special cases for introspection MSR-s. This patch
> >> allows the vm_event consumer to specify exactly what MSR-s it is
> >> interested in, and as a side-effect gets rid of the
> >> vmx_introspection_force_enabled_msrs[] special case.
> >> The patch also introduces arch_monitor_init_domain() and
> >> arch_monitor_cleanup_domain(), to do monitor-specific work
> >> (as opposed to the previous way of doing all the setup in
> >> vm_event_init_domain() / vm_event_cleanup_domain()).
> >> This replaces the previously posted "xen: Filter out MSR write
> >> events" patch.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Does this patch require additional acks? Tamas' maybe?

I assume it's not for 4.7.  (If it were for 4.7 it would require a
release ack, which (on the basis of the information provided so far) I
think ought probably not to be granted.)

Thanks,
Ian.

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