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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IOMMU/x86: per-domain control structure is not HVM-specific
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 03:59:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5728928A02000078000E7EE9@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57287103.8060300@citrix.com>

>>> On 03.05.16 at 11:36, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/16 13:55, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> ... and hence should not live in the HVM part of the PV/HVM union. In
>> fact it's not even architecture specific (there already is a per-arch
>> extension type to it), so it gets moved out right to common struct
>> domain.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> 
> Yikes - this really does need fixing ASAP.

The more interesting question here is how to deal with the stable
trees: The patch, due to its size, doesn't really lend itself to
backporting. Yet the alternative (mentioned in a remark in the
original submission) would be pretty clumsy too.

Opinions?

Jan


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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-02 12:55 [PATCH] IOMMU/x86: per-domain control structure is not HVM-specific Jan Beulich
2016-05-03  9:36 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-05-03  9:59   ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2016-05-03 10:18     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-05-03 10:34       ` George Dunlap
2016-05-03 12:47 ` Julien Grall
2016-05-03 13:37 ` Wei Liu

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