From: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Deep Shah <sdeep@vmware.com>,
"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:48:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMzpN2hvK2T7Qje51MPjMyTggxT7_=EFnt7gAmJEa1Zq+t3LtA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200701110650.16172-1-jgross@suse.com>
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 7:07 AM Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
>
> The long term plan has been to replace Xen PV guests by PVH. The first
> victim of that plan are now 32-bit PV guests, as those are used only
> rather seldom these days. Xen on x86 requires 64-bit support and with
> Grub2 now supporting PVH officially since version 2.04 there is no
> need to keep 32-bit PV guest support alive in the Linux kernel.
> Additionally Meltdown mitigation is not available in the kernel running
> as 32-bit PV guest, so dropping this mode makes sense from security
> point of view, too.
One thing that you missed is removing VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT from
vdso32/note.S. With that removed there is no difference from the
64-bit version.
Otherwise this series looks good to me.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-02 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-01 11:06 [PATCH v2 0/4] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support Juergen Gross
2020-07-01 11:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/xen: remove " Juergen Gross
2020-07-01 16:33 ` Brian Gerst
2020-07-02 22:59 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2020-07-02 23:24 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-07-02 23:27 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2020-07-03 5:15 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-07-01 11:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] x86/paravirt: remove 32-bit support from PARAVIRT_XXL Juergen Gross
2020-07-01 11:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] x86/paravirt: cleanup paravirt macros Juergen Gross
2020-07-01 11:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] x86/paravirt: use CONFIG_PARAVIRT_XXL instead of CONFIG_PARAVIRT Juergen Gross
2020-07-02 8:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-02 14:48 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2020-07-02 15:45 ` Jürgen Groß
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