From: Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
jgross@suse.com
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com, Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>,
mchehab@kernel.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
hch@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
rdunlap@infradead.org, luto@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, bp@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, roger.pau@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/7] KVM: x86: Allow Qemu/KVM to use PVH entry point
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:09:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <faae2cec-1ff2-74eb-69c8-b75f64cfca3a__16583.2046339803$1544638148$gmane$org@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8ed34e7-f82a-2314-9919-185d48510715@redhat.com>
On 12/6/2018 1:21 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 06/12/18 07:02, Maran Wilson wrote:
>> For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual
>> machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the
>> guest is not needed, Qemu should be able to boot directly into the
>> uncompressed Linux kernel binary without the need to run firmware.
>>
>> There already exists an ABI to allow this for Xen PVH guests and the ABI
>> is supported by Linux and FreeBSD:
>>
>> https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvh.html
>>
>> This patch series would enable Qemu to use that same entry point for
>> booting KVM guests.
> Thanks! I should be able to post a Tested-by next Monday. Boris, are
> you going to pick it up for 4.21?
Hi Paolo,
Are you still planning on running some testing of your own for these
patches? Should Boris wait to hear from you before moving forward?
Thanks,
-Maran
> Paolo
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1544076152-21637-1-git-send-email-maran.wilson@oracle.com>
2018-12-06 6:04 ` [PATCH v8 1/7] xen/pvh: Split CONFIG_XEN_PVH into CONFIG_PVH and CONFIG_XEN_PVH Maran Wilson
2018-12-06 6:04 ` [PATCH v8 2/7] xen/pvh: Move PVH entry code out of Xen specific tree Maran Wilson
2018-12-06 6:05 ` [PATCH v8 3/7] xen/pvh: Create a new file for Xen specific PVH code Maran Wilson
2018-12-06 6:05 ` [PATCH v8 4/7] xen/pvh: Move Xen specific PVH VM initialization out of common file Maran Wilson
2018-12-06 6:05 ` [PATCH v8 5/7] xen/pvh: Move Xen code for getting mem map via hcall " Maran Wilson
2018-12-06 6:06 ` [PATCH v8 6/7] xen/pvh: Add memory map pointer to hvm_start_info struct Maran Wilson
2018-12-06 6:06 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] KVM: x86: Allow Qemu/KVM to use PVH entry point Maran Wilson
2018-12-06 21:21 ` [PATCH v8 0/7] " Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <e8ed34e7-f82a-2314-9919-185d48510715@redhat.com>
2018-12-06 21:37 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <20181206213752.GL3986@zn.tnic>
2018-12-06 21:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
[not found] ` <147cc043-b0af-74e9-5259-8c7854f82d8b@oracle.com>
2018-12-06 22:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <63756df6-6f0b-fdfa-932e-b53d173da5be@redhat.com>
2018-12-07 10:25 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <20181207102546.GC9385@zn.tnic>
2018-12-07 16:07 ` Boris Ostrovsky
[not found] ` <e6b86f5a-ef90-8770-8091-5a143ab00754@oracle.com>
2018-12-07 19:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-12 18:09 ` Maran Wilson [this message]
[not found] ` <faae2cec-1ff2-74eb-69c8-b75f64cfca3a@oracle.com>
2018-12-12 18:17 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2018-12-13 13:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <1544076395-22187-1-git-send-email-maran.wilson@oracle.com>
2018-12-06 22:05 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] " Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <1544076257-21792-1-git-send-email-maran.wilson@oracle.com>
2018-12-06 22:11 ` [PATCH v8 1/7] xen/pvh: Split CONFIG_XEN_PVH into CONFIG_PVH and CONFIG_XEN_PVH Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <d532f023-85f9-62b9-ca56-53a619fdcd1e@redhat.com>
2018-12-06 22:34 ` Boris Ostrovsky
[not found] ` <3b4fdddd-67d8-30d3-2a5d-c4d07b6f31c9@oracle.com>
2018-12-06 22:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <e76da394-c721-87ae-c721-1f6efdc93a50@redhat.com>
2018-12-06 23:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
[not found] ` <becd5f82-0cca-f74b-93bd-6b4f13bc8bf0@oracle.com>
2018-12-06 23:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <cef985c3-a687-c1af-83ac-2c71af45a366@redhat.com>
2018-12-06 23:36 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-12-07 6:02 ` Juergen Gross
[not found] ` <2c289956-0e6a-700c-605d-83685fbb08f9@suse.com>
2018-12-07 13:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <0a2f692a-f7df-8ad1-9d34-96f5e36926db@redhat.com>
2018-12-07 13:50 ` Juergen Gross
[not found] ` <3f95d053-87aa-ad45-03e6-1e1977283eb4@suse.com>
2018-12-07 13:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <d0fd8799-35ea-fba5-9d0d-94feead85943@redhat.com>
2018-12-07 13:58 ` Juergen Gross
[not found] ` <5d1d0071-1db4-ea03-027f-2a12812b78d0@suse.com>
2018-12-07 15:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <d18b961a-d115-8d12-8ee4-eb1a3466959c@redhat.com>
2018-12-07 18:21 ` Maran Wilson
2018-12-06 6:02 [PATCH v8 0/7] KVM: x86: Allow Qemu/KVM to use PVH entry point Maran Wilson
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