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Re: [PATCH v2] partially revert "xen: Remove event channel notification through Xen PCI platform device"

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On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 01/12/2017 04:39 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > The following commit:
> >
> > commit 72a9b186292d98494f222226cfd24a1621796209
> > Author: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
> > Date:   Fri Aug 26 23:55:36 2016 +0200
> >
> >     xen: Remove event channel notification through Xen PCI platform device
> >
> > broke Linux when booting as Dom0 on Xen in a nested Xen environment (Xen
> > installed inside a Xen VM). In this scenario, Linux is a PV guest, but
> > at the same time it uses the platform-pci driver to receive
> > notifications from L0 Xen. vector callbacks are not available because L1
> > Xen doesn't allow them.
> >
> > Partially revert the offending commit, by restoring IRQ based
> > notifications for PV guests only. I restored only the code which is
> > strictly needed and replaced the xen_have_vector_callback checks within
> > it with xen_pv_domain() checks.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

Applied to xentip/for-linus-4.10, improving the commit message as
suggested before.

Do you plan on sending out another pull request for 4.10?

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[PATCH v2] partially revert "xen: Remove event channel notification  through Xen PCI platform device" Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-01-12 22:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] partially revert "xen: Remove event channel  notification through Xen PCI platform device" Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-01-13 15:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] partially revert "xen: Remove event channel notification  through Xen PCI platform device" Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-01-13 19:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] partially revert "xen: Remove event channel  notification through Xen PCI platform device" Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-01-13 19:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2] partially revert "xen: Remove event channel  notification through Xen PCI platform device" Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-01-16 07:20 +0100

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