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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Convert shadow-paging to Kconfig
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:53:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <569D6CE8.5050707@cardoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453142404-8819-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>


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On 1/18/16 12:40 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>

> ---
> CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
> CC: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
> ---
>  xen/arch/x86/Kconfig            | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk           |  4 ----
>  xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/Makefile |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig b/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 4781b34..9869630 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -27,6 +27,20 @@ menu "Architecture Features"
>  
>  source "arch/Kconfig"
>  
> +config SHADOW_PAGING
> +        bool "Shadow Paging"
> +        default y
> +        ---help---
> +          Shadow paging is a software alternative to hardware paging support
> +          (Intel EPT, AMD NPT) for use with HVM guests.
> +
> +          It is required to run HVM guests for first-generation hardware
> +          virtualisation (Intel VT-x, AMD SVM) which did not include hardware
> +          paging support.  Under a small number of specific workloads, shadow
> +          paging may also be deliberately used as a performance improvement.
> +
> +          If unsure, say Y.
> +
>  config BIGMEM
>  	bool "big memory support"
>  	default n
> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk b/xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk
> index a108d24..a1cdae0 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk
> @@ -22,13 +22,9 @@ $(call as-insn-check,CFLAGS,CC,".equ \"x\"$$(comma)1", \
>                       -U__OBJECT_LABEL__ -DHAVE_GAS_QUOTED_SYM \
>                       '-D__OBJECT_LABEL__=$(subst $(BASEDIR)/,,$(CURDIR))/$$@')
>  
> -shadow-paging ?= y
> -
>  CFLAGS += -mno-red-zone -mno-sse -fpic
>  CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
>  # -fvisibility=hidden reduces -fpic cost, if it's available
>  ifneq ($(call cc-option,$(CC),-fvisibility=hidden,n),n)
>  CFLAGS += -DGCC_HAS_VISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE
>  endif
> -
> -CFLAGS-$(shadow-paging) += -DCONFIG_SHADOW_PAGING
> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/Makefile b/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/Makefile
> index a07bc0c..df194ad 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/Makefile
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/Makefile
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -ifeq ($(shadow-paging),y)
> +ifdef CONFIG_SHADOW_PAGING
>  obj-y += common.o guest_2.o guest_3.o guest_4.o
>  else
>  obj-y += none.o
> 

-- 
Doug Goldstein


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-18 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-18 18:40 [PATCH] x86: Convert shadow-paging to Kconfig Andrew Cooper
2016-01-18 22:53 ` Doug Goldstein [this message]
2016-01-19  9:46 ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19 13:23   ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-19 13:30     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-19 13:38       ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-19 13:47         ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-19 13:39   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-19 13:50     ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19 13:54       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-19 13:46   ` Tim Deegan
2016-01-19 13:51     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-19 13:27 ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-19 13:33   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-19 13:39     ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-29 18:20 Andrew Cooper
2016-01-29 21:46 ` Doug Goldstein
2016-02-01  9:54 ` Tim Deegan
2016-02-02 11:39 ` George Dunlap

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