[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/xen: Remove use of VLAs

2018-04-13 Thread Laura Abbott
There's an ongoing effort to remove VLAs[1] from the kernel to eventually turn on -Wvla. The few VLAs in use have an upper bound based on a size of 64K. This doesn't produce an excessively large stack so just switch the upper bound. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 Signed-off-by: Laura

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/xen: Remove use of VLAs

2018-04-13 Thread Laura Abbott
On 04/13/2018 07:55 PM, David Brown wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 03:11:46PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote: There's an ongoing effort to remove VLAs[1] from the kernel to eventually turn on -Wvla. The few VLAs in use have an upper bound based on a size of 64K. This doesn't produce an excessively

[Xen-devel] [PATCHv2] x86/xen: Remove use of VLAs

2018-04-18 Thread Laura Abbott
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labb...@redhat.com> --- v2: Updated the code to reflect that we know size is always bounded by GDT_SIZE. This gets rid of the array and the loop. I can throw a few more comments in there if someone thinks they need to be updated. --- arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/xen: Remove use of VLAs

2018-04-17 Thread Laura Abbott
On 04/17/2018 12:16 AM, Juergen Gross wrote: On 16/04/18 15:27, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: On 04/13/2018 06:11 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: There's an ongoing effort to remove VLAs[1] from the kernel to eventually turn on -Wvla. The few VLAs in use have an upper bound based on a size of 64K

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen / EC2 release criteria proposal

2019-08-10 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/10/19 2:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey folks! I'm starting a new thread for this to trim the recipient list a bit and include devel@ and coreos@. The Story So Far: there is a Fedora release criterion which requires Fedora to boot on Xen: "The release must boot successfully as Xen DomU