Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/xen: remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support | From | Boris Ostrovsky <> | Date | Thu, 2 Jul 2020 19:27:26 -0400 |
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On 7/2/20 7:24 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 02/07/2020 23:59, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >> On 7/1/20 7:06 AM, Juergen Gross wrote: >>> >>> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE >>> -static void xen_set_pte_atomic(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte) >>> -{ >>> - trace_xen_mmu_set_pte_atomic(ptep, pte); >>> - __xen_set_pte(ptep, pte); >> Probably not for this series but I wonder whether __xen_set_pte() should >> continue to use hypercall now that we are 64-bit only. > The hypercall path is a SYSCALL (and SYSRET out). > > The "writeable" PTE path is a #PF, followed by an x86 instruction > emulation, which then reaches the same logic as the hypercall path (and > an IRET out).
Then we should at least update the comment.
-boris
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