Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:06:44 +0000 | From | David Vrabel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preempted on 64-bit |
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On 27/01/15 08:35, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 27.01.15 at 02:51, <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote: > > Even if David told you this would be acceptable, I have to question > an abstract model of fixing issues on only 64-bit kernels - this may > be acceptable for distro purposes, but seems hardly the right > approach for upstream. If 32-bit ones are to become deliberately > broken, the XEN config option should become dependent on !X86_32.
I'd rather have something omitted (keeping the current behaviour) than something that has not been tested at all.
Obviously it would be preferable to to fix both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 (and ARM as well) but I'm not going to block an important bug fix for the majority use case (64-bit x86).
David
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