Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] fix vtlb flush

[Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could you try the attached patches?
They suppress warnings on the console, but
qemu-dm complains in the log file as

> xen_platform: unable to change ro/rw state of ROM memory area!

qemu-dm doesn't stop at that error, and go further normaly.
I think this warning is surely correct and I prefer to leave it as is.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:56:59PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 03:44:50PM +0900, Kouya Shimura wrote:
> > Isaku Yamahata writes:
> > > Are you planning to send another patches
> > > which should be included in the 3.3 release?
> > > (of course it would depend on test resuts...)
> > 
> > I'm slight uneasy about the following dom0's dmesg.
> > "xencomm_privcmd_hvm_op: unknown HVMOP 8"
> > 
> > Shoud we implement HVMOP_set_mem_type?
> > There seems to be no problem without it, though.
> 
> I suppose there is no urgent need for it now.
> On x86, it's used only by guest bios to protect virtual rom area
> from guest.
> For the 3.3 release it would be reasonable to implement
> xencomm routine in dom0, and -ENOSYS in xen vmm.
> (or if qemu complains, returning 0 doing nothing as work around)
> 
> I can think of some ia64 specific regions which should be
> protected from guest, but not very urgent.
> The xen/ia64 already has similar fanctionality internally,
> ASSIGN_readonly. So I guess it's not much work to implement it.
> 

-- 
yamahata

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