From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Shuai Ruan <shuai.ruan@linux.intel.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: kevin.tian@intel.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
Ian.Campbell@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
eddie.dong@intel.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com,
jbeulich@suse.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com, keir@xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/6] add xsaves/xrstors support
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 17:38:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C23BFD.1070706@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438739842-31658-1-git-send-email-shuai.ruan@linux.intel.com>
On 05/08/15 02:57, Shuai Ruan wrote:
> Detail hardware spec can be found in chapter 13 (section 13.11 13.12) of the
> Intel SDM [1].
>
> patch1: add xsaves/xrstors support for pv guest
> patch2: add xsaves/xrstors support for xen
> patch3-5: add xsaves/xrstors support for hvm guest
> patch6: swtich on detection of xsaves/xrstors/xgetbv in xen
This order of operations seems backwards.
Can I suggest starting with a patch which adds various xsaves/etc
defines/helper functions/etc (rather than having them spread through the
series), then a patch which allows Xen to start using the features, then
adding support to PV and HVM guests.
~Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-05 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-05 1:57 [PATCH V3 0/6] add xsaves/xrstors support Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 1:57 ` [PATCH V3 1/6] x86/xsaves: enable xsaves/xrstors for pv guest Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 17:51 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-08-07 8:00 ` Shuai Ruan
[not found] ` <20150807080008.GA2976@shuai.ruan@linux.intel.com>
2015-08-07 12:44 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-08-11 7:50 ` Shuai Ruan
[not found] ` <20150811075039.GA14406@shuai.ruan@linux.intel.com>
2015-08-11 10:24 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-08-12 3:01 ` Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 1:57 ` [PATCH V3 2/6] x86/xsaves: enable xsaves/xrstors in xen Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 17:57 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-08-05 1:57 ` [PATCH V3 3/6] x86/xsaves: enable xsaves/xrstors for hvm guest Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 18:17 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-08-07 8:22 ` Shuai Ruan
[not found] ` <20150807082244.GB2976@shuai.ruan@linux.intel.com>
2015-08-07 13:04 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-08-11 7:59 ` Shuai Ruan
[not found] ` <20150811075909.GB14406@shuai.ruan@linux.intel.com>
2015-08-11 9:37 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-08-12 11:17 ` Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 1:57 ` [PATCH V3 4/6] libxc: expose xsaves/xgetbv1/xsavec to " Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 8:37 ` Ian Campbell
2015-08-07 8:23 ` Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 1:57 ` [PATCH V3 5/6] x86/xsaves: support compact format for hvm save/restore Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 18:45 ` Andrew Cooper
[not found] ` <20150811080143.GC14406@shuai.ruan@linux.intel.com>
2015-08-11 9:27 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-08-12 11:23 ` Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 1:57 ` [PATCH V3 6/6] x86/xsaves: detect xsaves/xgetbv1 in xen Shuai Ruan
2015-08-05 16:38 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2015-08-07 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 0/6] add xsaves/xrstors support Shuai Ruan
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