On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 11:23:12AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 02/05/18 00:33, gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > x86/xen: Add pvh specific rsdp address retrieval function > > > > to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > x86-xen-add-pvh-specific-rsdp-address-retrieval-function.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <sta...@vger.kernel.org> know about it. > > > > > > From foo@baz Tue May 1 14:59:18 PDT 2018 > > From: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> > > Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:09:06 +0100 > > Subject: x86/xen: Add pvh specific rsdp address retrieval function > > > > From: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> > > > > [ Upstream commit b17d9d1df3c33a4f1d2bf397e2257aecf9dc56d4 ] > > > > Add pvh_get_root_pointer() for Xen PVH guests to communicate the > > address of the RSDP table given to the kernel via Xen start info. > > > > This makes the kernel boot again in PVH mode after on recent Xen the > > RSDP was moved to higher addresses. So up to that change it was pure > > luck that the legacy method to locate the RSDP was working when > > running as PVH mode. > > > > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> > > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevche...@gmail.com> > > Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > > Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com> > > Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> > > Cc: Eric Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> > > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> > > Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> > > Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> > > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> > > Cc: boris.ostrov...@oracle.com > > Cc: l...@kernel.org > > Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180219100906.14265-4-jgr...@suse.com > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.le...@microsoft.com> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > Thanks for adding this patch. > > For making it compile I think you'll need upstream commits > 038bac2b02989acf1fc938cedcb7944c02672b9f and > dfc9327ab7c99bc13e12106448615efba833886b.
I'll just drop this and if Sasha thinks it is worth it, he can backport these other two patches and resend them. Especially as I think we already talked about this in the past :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
