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From: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: mostly shadow related XSA-319 follow-up
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At 11:56 +0200 on 15 Jul (1594814214), Jan Beulich wrote:
> This in particular goes a few small steps further towards proper
> !HVM and !PV config handling (i.e. no carrying of unnecessary
> baggage).
> 
> 1: x86/shadow: dirty VRAM tracking is needed for HVM only
> 2: x86/shadow: shadow_table[] needs only one entry for PV-only configs
> 3: x86/PV: drop a few misleading paging_mode_refcounts() checks
> 4: x86/shadow: have just a single instance of sh_set_toplevel_shadow()
> 5: x86/shadow: l3table[] and gl3e[] are HVM only

I sent a question on #5 separatly; otherwise these all seem good to
me, thank you!

Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>