On 02/05/18 00:33, [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> know about it. > > > From foo@baz Tue May 1 14:59:18 PDT 2018 > From: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:09:06 +0100 > Subject: x86/xen: Add pvh specific rsdp address retrieval function > > From: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> > > [ 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 <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> > Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> > Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Thanks for adding this patch. For making it compile I think you'll need upstream commits 038bac2b02989acf1fc938cedcb7944c02672b9f and dfc9327ab7c99bc13e12106448615efba833886b. Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
