From: "Chen, Tiejun" <tiejun.chen@intel.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Kevin <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
"ian.campbell@citrix.com" <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
"ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com" <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
"Wang, Yong Y" <yong.y.wang@intel.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Requesting for freeze exception for RMRR
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:27:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A46575.5020607@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150713114145.GF4108@zion.uk.xensource.com>
> Please work with maintainers to get those hvmloader patches acked or
> reviewed.
I will do.
>
>>
>> Note Jackson and Campbell also raised some comments to improve current
>> codes.
>>
>> 2. explain why it needs to be in this release (benefits).
>>
>> RMRR mechanism was broken for a long time and this makes VM always face
>> security issues. In addition, those associated devices can't be passed
>> through to VM and even result in VM crashes.
>>
>> 3. explain why it doesn't break things (risks).
>>
>> Our policy makes sure that system will work in the original way by default
>> as without the RMRR patches. And especially, this series just impacts those
>> platforms which have RMRR.
>>
>
> Your patches touch crucial path in hvmloader to build memory map. There
> is risk that it may break hvmloader even if it is turned off.
>
> I would need at least some positive test results from you to confirm if
> this feature is turned off everything works as before.
>
Could you show what sort of test you need here? I just did boot a VM
without any RDM parameters. I just think maybe someone had this good
experience to check this.
Thanks
Tiejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-14 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-13 6:31 Requesting for freeze exception for RMRR Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-13 8:11 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-13 11:41 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-14 1:27 ` Chen, Tiejun [this message]
2015-07-14 9:29 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-17 1:16 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-17 9:17 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-17 9:24 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-17 9:30 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-17 13:21 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-17 13:43 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-17 14:01 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-17 14:33 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-17 15:11 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-17 15:26 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-17 15:32 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-17 15:37 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-20 1:14 ` Tian, Kevin
2015-07-13 13:38 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 0:26 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-14 9:18 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 9:25 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-14 9:36 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 9:27 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-14 9:38 ` Jan Beulich
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