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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 18/30] xen/x86: setup PVHv2 Dom0 ACPI tables
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 05:25:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58120048020000780011A1A8@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161027111324.2tgfogl7oobkexrt@Air-de-Roger>

>>> On 27.10.16 at 13:13, <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 01:14:16PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> >>>> I've initially used a back-listing approach. We can always change this later 
>> >>>> on.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> So I've ended up crafting a new MADT, XSDT and RSDP. Note that I'm not 
>> >>>> crafting a new custom RSDT (and in fact I'm setting rsdt_physical_address = 
>> >>>> 0 in the RSDP together with revision = 2). This is all placed in RAM stolen 
>> >>>> from the guest memory map and marked as E820_ACPI, which means that the new 
>> >>>> RSDP no longer resides below 1MB, 
>> 
>> As I mentioned in the other thread I am not sure this would be in
>> compliance with the ACPI spec.
> 
> Right, the ACPI spec mandates that the RSDP must reside in the first 1 KB of 
> the EBDA, or in the ROM regions between 0xE0000 0xFFFFF, but that's only 
> when booted from a legacy BIOS, when booted from UEFI the RSDP can reside 
> anywhere in memory, and the pointer must be fetched from a UEFI specific 
> table. I would consider Xen to be similar to UEFI boot in that regard.

+1

Jan

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Thread overview: 146+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-27 15:56 [PATCH v2 00/30] PVHv2 Dom0 Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-27 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 01/30] xen/x86: move setup of the VM86 TSS to the domain builder Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-28 15:35   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-29 12:57     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-27 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 02/30] xen/x86: remove XENFEAT_hvm_pirqs for PVHv2 guests Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-28 16:03   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-29 14:17     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 16:07       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 03/30] xen/x86: fix parameters and return value of *_set_allocation functions Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-28  9:34   ` Tim Deegan
2016-09-29 10:39   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-29 14:33     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 16:09       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-30 16:48   ` George Dunlap
2016-10-03  8:05   ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-06 11:33     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-27 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 04/30] xen/x86: allow calling {sh/hap}_set_allocation with the idle domain Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 10:43   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-29 14:37     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 16:10       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-30 16:56   ` George Dunlap
2016-09-30 16:56     ` George Dunlap
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 05/30] xen/x86: assert that local_events_need_delivery is not called by " Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 10:45   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-30  8:32     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-30  8:59       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 06/30] x86/paging: introduce paging_set_allocation Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 10:51   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-29 14:51     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 16:12       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-29 16:57         ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-30 17:00   ` George Dunlap
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 07/30] xen/x86: split the setup of Dom0 permissions to a function Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 13:47   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-29 15:53     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 08/30] xen/x86: do the PCI scan unconditionally Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 13:55   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-29 15:11     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 16:14       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 09/30] x86/vtd: fix and simplify mapping RMRR regions Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 14:18   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-30 11:27     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-30 13:21       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-30 15:02         ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-30 15:09           ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 10/30] xen/x86: allow the emulated APICs to be enbled for the hardware domain Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-29 14:26   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-30 15:44     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 11/30] xen/x86: split Dom0 build into PV and PVHv2 Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-30 15:03   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-03 10:09     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-04  6:54       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-04  7:09         ` Andrew Cooper
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 12/30] xen/x86: make print_e820_memory_map global Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-30 15:04   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-03 16:23     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-04  6:47       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 13/30] xen: introduce a new format specifier to print sizes in human-readable form Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-28  8:24   ` Juergen Gross
2016-09-28 11:56     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-28 12:01       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-03  8:36   ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-11 10:27   ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 14/30] xen/mm: add a ceil sufix to current page calculation routine Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-30 15:20   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 15/30] xen/x86: populate PVHv2 Dom0 physical memory map Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-30 15:52   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-04  9:12     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-04 11:16       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-11 14:01         ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-12 11:51           ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-11 14:06     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-12 11:58       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 16/30] xen/x86: parse Dom0 kernel for PVHv2 Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-06 15:14   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-11 15:02     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 17/30] xen/x86: setup PVHv2 Dom0 CPUs Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-06 15:20   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 11:06     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-12 11:32       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-12 12:02       ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 18/30] xen/x86: setup PVHv2 Dom0 ACPI tables Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-06 15:40   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-06 15:48     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-12 15:35     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-12 15:55       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-26 11:35         ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-26 14:10           ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-26 15:08             ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-26 15:16               ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-26 16:03                 ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-27  7:25                   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-27 11:08                     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-26 17:14                 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-27  7:27                   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-27 11:13                   ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-27 11:25                     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2016-10-27 13:51                     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-27 14:02                       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-27 14:15                         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-27 14:30                           ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-27 14:40                             ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-27 15:04                               ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-27 15:20                                 ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-27 15:37                                   ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-28 13:51                                 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 19/30] xen/dcpi: add a dpci passthrough handler for hardware domain Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-03  9:02   ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-06 14:31     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-06 15:44   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 20/30] xen/x86: add the basic infrastructure to import QEMU passthrough code Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-03  9:54   ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-06 15:08     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-06 15:52       ` Lars Kurth
2016-10-07  9:13       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-06 15:47   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 12:41   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 21/30] xen/pci: split code to size BARs from pci_add_device Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-06 16:00   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 22/30] xen/x86: support PVHv2 Dom0 BAR remapping Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-03 10:10   ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-06 15:25     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 23/30] xen/x86: route legacy PCI interrupts to Dom0 Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-10 13:37   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 24/30] x86/vmsi: add MSI emulation for hardware domain Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 25/30] xen/x86: add all PCI devices to PVHv2 Dom0 Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-10 13:44   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 26/30] xen/x86: add PCIe emulation Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-03 10:46   ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-06 15:53     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-10 13:57   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 27/30] x86/msixtbl: disable MSI-X intercepts for domains without an ioreq server Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-10 14:18   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 28/30] xen/x86: add MSI-X emulation to PVHv2 Dom0 Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-03 10:57   ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-06 15:58     ` Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-10 16:15   ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 29/30] xen/x86: allow PVHv2 to perform foreign memory mappings Roger Pau Monne
2016-09-30 17:36   ` George Dunlap
2016-10-10 14:21   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 14:27     ` George Dunlap
2016-10-10 14:50       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 14:58         ` George Dunlap
2016-09-27 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 30/30] xen: allow setting the store pfn HVM parameter Roger Pau Monne
2016-10-03 11:01   ` Paul Durrant
2016-09-28 12:22 ` [PATCH v2 00/30] PVHv2 Dom0 Roger Pau Monne

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