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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/7] xen/hvm: Xen PV extension of  HVM	initializa
 
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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/7] xen/hvm: Xen PV extension of  HVM	initialization | 
 
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Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> | 
 
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Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:18:45 +0000 | 
 
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On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:41 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > On 03/03/2010 03:35 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > Give a look at the fourth patch of the series I just posted: it
> > > introduces a simple driver for the Xen PCI platform device to initialize
> > > xenbus and gran table later on when running in a HVM domain, at the same
> > > time leaving the PV case as it is.
> > >    
> > 
> > Yes, I noticed that.  Do the PV drivers cope with having the PCI 
> > probe/xenbus setup after their init functions have been called, or do 
> > you make sure the PCI probe happens early?
> > 
> 
> Nope, they seem to cope fine so far.
xenbus_frontend_register is basically just driver_register so it should
be safe to call even before the register_bus(xenbusfoo) call. Things
shouldn't kick off until xen_probe() is called which either happens
explicitly in xenbus_probe_init() or via probe_work which contains a
xenstored_ready check.
Ian.
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