> -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > Sent: 01 July 2020 11:23 > To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; George Dunlap > <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com>; Ian > Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com>; Julien Grall <jul...@xen.org>; Wei Liu > <w...@xen.org>; Stefano > Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>; Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>; > Paul Durrant > <p...@xen.org> > Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] x86: compat header generation and checking adjustments > > As was pointed out by 0e2e54966af5 ("mm: fix public declaration of > struct xen_mem_acquire_resource"), we're not currently handling structs > correctly that have uint64_aligned_t fields. Patch 2 demonstrates that > there was also an issue with XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_64(). > > Only the 1st patch was previously sent, but the approach chosen has > been changed altogether. All later patches are new. For 4.14 I think > at least patch 1 should be considered.
It's now quite a large patch. Since xen_mem_acquire_resouce() has been fixed, patch #1 (as you say in the comment there) is addressing a latent issue and so I’d prefer not to take what is now quite a large patch into 4.14. Paul > > 1: x86: fix compat header generation > 2: x86/mce: add compat struct checking for XEN_MC_inject_v2 > 3: x86/mce: bring hypercall subop compat checking in sync again > 4: x86/dmop: add compat struct checking for > XEN_DMOP_map_mem_type_to_ioreq_server > 5: x86: generalize padding field handling > 6: flask: drop dead compat translation code > 7: x86: only generate compat headers actually needed > > Jan