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SubjectRe: [PATCH 30/30] x86, kaiser, xen: Dynamically disable KAISER when running under Xen PV
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On 08/11/17 20:47, Dave Hansen wrote:
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
>
> If you paravirtualize the MMU, you can not use KAISER. This boils down
> to the fact that KAISER needs to do CR3 writes in places that it is not
> feasible to do real hypercalls.
>
> If we detect that Xen PV is in use, do not do the KAISER CR3 switches.
>
> I don't think this too bug of a deal for Xen. I was under the
> impression that the Xen guest kernel and Xen guest userspace didn't
> share an address space *anyway* so Xen PV is not normally even exposed
> to the kinds of things that KAISER protects against.
>
> This allows KAISER=y kernels to deployed in environments that also
> require PARAVIRT=y.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen

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