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[v3] x86/save: reserve HVM save record numbers that have been consumed...

Message ID 20191219173819.14065-1-pdurrant@amazon.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [v3] x86/save: reserve HVM save record numbers that have been consumed... | expand

Commit Message

Paul Durrant Dec. 19, 2019, 5:38 p.m. UTC 
...for patches not (yet) upstream.

This patch is simply adding a comment to reserve save record number space
to avoid the risk of clashes between existent downstream changes made by
Amazon and future upstream changes which may be incompatible.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
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Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>

v3:
 - Reduced range and clarified inclusivity

v2:
 - Reduce patch to just a comment
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 xen/include/public/arch-x86/hvm/save.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Comments

Jan Beulich Dec. 20, 2019, 10:43 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 19.12.2019 18:38, Paul Durrant wrote:
> ...for patches not (yet) upstream.
> 
> This patch is simply adding a comment to reserve save record number space
> to avoid the risk of clashes between existent downstream changes made by
> Amazon and future upstream changes which may be incompatible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
(albeit somewhat reluctantly)
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diff --git a/xen/include/public/arch-x86/hvm/save.h b/xen/include/public/arch-x86/hvm/save.h
index b2ad3fcd74..468c28dedb 100644
--- a/xen/include/public/arch-x86/hvm/save.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/arch-x86/hvm/save.h
@@ -639,6 +639,8 @@  struct hvm_msr {
 
 #define CPU_MSR_CODE  20
 
+/* Range 22 - 34 (inclusive) reserved for Amazon */
+
 /*
  * Largest type-code in use
  */