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Re: [Xen-devel] Vanilla Linux 64-bit paravirt guest support

To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Vanilla Linux 64-bit paravirt guest support
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:04:31 -0500
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Abd-El-Malek <mabdelmalek@xxxxxxx>
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Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:25 -0500, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
s what we're actually shipping for F-9. It includes the x86_64 work,
but some other paravirt_ops patches too, most of which are queued up
upstream.
What else do you have?  Hm.  I was really hoping to drop /proc/xen/...

Okay, here's the list:

    xen x86_64: Initial x86_64 support for Xen paravirt_ops

Eduardo's x86_64 stuff

    xen x86_64: Add 64 bit version of privcmd_hypercall()
    xen: Add Xen's /sys/hypervisor interface
    xen: Add /proc/xen/xenbus
    xen: Add /proc/xen/privcmd
    xen: Add /proc/xen/capabilities
    xen: Add empty xenctrl module

This is /proc/xen and /sys/hypervisor stuff pulled from the dom0 tree.
In that tree we've got mostly full compatibility with the
linux-2.6.18-xen userspace interfaces AFAIR.

I probably don't need all of these for DomU, but I went for the safe bet
of including anything that userspace might be relying on.

Happy for us to drop /proc/xen in the future - this is just a "get
things going" thing.

I'd rather fix userspace now, rather than let anyone get the impression that /proc/xen/ is going to be a supported interface. We'll probably have to end up making /proc/xen/ exist for backwards compat, but we should make it clear that it isn't the canonical path.

Not that I've thought about where it should be. /sys/hypervisor/xen? xendom0fs?

   J

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