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libxc/migration: Drop unimplemneted domain types

Message ID 20191220173502.15615-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series libxc/migration: Drop unimplemneted domain types | expand

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Andrew Cooper Dec. 20, 2019, 5:35 p.m. UTC
x86 PVH is completely obsolete - it was intended for legacy PVH before that
idea was abandoned.  There was an RFC series for ARM in 2015, but there is
plenty of outstanding work which hasn't been done yet.

No functional change.  New types can be (re)introduced with the code which
actually implements them.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
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CC: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>
CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
CC: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
CC: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
CC: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
---
 docs/specs/libxc-migration-stream.pandoc | 6 +-----
 tools/libxc/xc_sr_common.c               | 2 --
 tools/libxc/xc_sr_stream_format.h        | 2 --
 tools/python/xen/migration/libxc.py      | 4 ----
 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)

Comments

Julien Grall Dec. 20, 2019, 5:39 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Andrew,

On 20/12/2019 17:35, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> x86 PVH is completely obsolete - it was intended for legacy PVH before that
> idea was abandoned.  There was an RFC series for ARM in 2015, but there is
> plenty of outstanding work which hasn't been done yet.
> 
> No functional change.  New types can be (re)introduced with the code which
> actually implements them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Wei Liu Dec. 20, 2019, 5:49 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 05:35:02PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> x86 PVH is completely obsolete - it was intended for legacy PVH before that
> idea was abandoned.  There was an RFC series for ARM in 2015, but there is
> plenty of outstanding work which hasn't been done yet.
> 
> No functional change.  New types can be (re)introduced with the code which
> actually implements them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Ian Jackson Dec. 20, 2019, 6:24 p.m. UTC | #3
Andrew Cooper writes ("[PATCH] libxc/migration: Drop unimplemneted domain types"):
> x86 PVH is completely obsolete - it was intended for legacy PVH before that
> idea was abandoned.  There was an RFC series for ARM in 2015, but there is
> plenty of outstanding work which hasn't been done yet.
> 
> No functional change.  New types can be (re)introduced with the code which
> actually implements them.
...
> -            0x0003: x86 PVH.
> -
> -            0x0004: ARM.
> -
> -            0x0005 - 0xFFFFFFFF: Reserved.
> +            0x0003 - 0xFFFFFFFF: Reserved.

This is reclaiming those numbers.  Could there be any software which
uses them ?  Eg, maybe someone put the RFC series into production ?

Ian.
Andrew Cooper Dec. 20, 2019, 6:30 p.m. UTC | #4
On 20/12/2019 18:24, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrew Cooper writes ("[PATCH] libxc/migration: Drop unimplemneted domain types"):
>> x86 PVH is completely obsolete - it was intended for legacy PVH before that
>> idea was abandoned.  There was an RFC series for ARM in 2015, but there is
>> plenty of outstanding work which hasn't been done yet.
>>
>> No functional change.  New types can be (re)introduced with the code which
>> actually implements them.
> ...
>> -            0x0003: x86 PVH.
>> -
>> -            0x0004: ARM.
>> -
>> -            0x0005 - 0xFFFFFFFF: Reserved.
>> +            0x0003 - 0xFFFFFFFF: Reserved.
> This is reclaiming those numbers.

Yes

> Could there be any software which uses them ?

Not plausibly, no, given...

> Eg, maybe someone put the RFC series into production ?

... the rather large set of outstanding TODO items in IanC's RFC series,
which included "the hypervisor is unstable when logdirty gets enabled" IIRC.

~Andrew
Ian Jackson Dec. 20, 2019, 6:44 p.m. UTC | #5
Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxc/migration: Drop unimplemneted domain types"):
> On 20/12/2019 18:24, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Could there be any software which uses them ?
> 
> Not plausibly, no, given...
> 
> > Eg, maybe someone put the RFC series into production ?
> 
> ... the rather large set of outstanding TODO items in IanC's RFC series,
> which included "the hypervisor is unstable when logdirty gets enabled" IIRC.

OK :-).

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Julien Grall Dec. 20, 2019, 7:01 p.m. UTC | #6
Hi,

On 20/12/2019 18:30, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 20/12/2019 18:24, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Andrew Cooper writes ("[PATCH] libxc/migration: Drop unimplemneted domain types"):
>>> x86 PVH is completely obsolete - it was intended for legacy PVH before that
>>> idea was abandoned.  There was an RFC series for ARM in 2015, but there is
>>> plenty of outstanding work which hasn't been done yet.
>>>
>>> No functional change.  New types can be (re)introduced with the code which
>>> actually implements them.
>> ...
>>> -            0x0003: x86 PVH.
>>> -
>>> -            0x0004: ARM.
>>> -
>>> -            0x0005 - 0xFFFFFFFF: Reserved.
>>> +            0x0003 - 0xFFFFFFFF: Reserved.
>> This is reclaiming those numbers.
> 
> Yes
> 
>> Could there be any software which uses them ?
> 
> Not plausibly, no, given...
> 
>> Eg, maybe someone put the RFC series into production ?
> 
> ... the rather large set of outstanding TODO items in IanC's RFC series,
> which included "the hypervisor is unstable when logdirty gets enabled" IIRC.

Some people after Ian picked up the work (AFAIK Linaro were the last 
ones), but yes the code was still an RFC even after that.

So I would not worry too much on potential use.

Cheers,
Julien Grall Dec. 20, 2019, 7:04 p.m. UTC | #7
Hi,

I forgot to mention the type in the commit title:

s/unimplemneted/implemented/

Cheers,
Andrew Cooper Dec. 20, 2019, 7:06 p.m. UTC | #8
On 20/12/2019 19:04, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I forgot to mention the type in the commit title:
>
> s/unimplemneted/implemented/

Oops.  TYVM.  Fixed.

~Andrew
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Patch

diff --git a/docs/specs/libxc-migration-stream.pandoc b/docs/specs/libxc-migration-stream.pandoc
index 313be3e80d..a7a8a08936 100644
--- a/docs/specs/libxc-migration-stream.pandoc
+++ b/docs/specs/libxc-migration-stream.pandoc
@@ -160,11 +160,7 @@  type        0x0000: Reserved.
 
             0x0002: x86 HVM.
 
-            0x0003: x86 PVH.
-
-            0x0004: ARM.
-
-            0x0005 - 0xFFFFFFFF: Reserved.
+            0x0003 - 0xFFFFFFFF: Reserved.
 
 page_shift  Size of a guest page as a power of two.
 
diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_sr_common.c b/tools/libxc/xc_sr_common.c
index 370d98d94a..46fd928de2 100644
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_sr_common.c
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_sr_common.c
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@  static const char *dhdr_types[] =
 {
     [DHDR_TYPE_X86_PV]  = "x86 PV",
     [DHDR_TYPE_X86_HVM] = "x86 HVM",
-    [DHDR_TYPE_X86_PVH] = "x86 PVH",
-    [DHDR_TYPE_ARM]     = "ARM",
 };
 
 const char *dhdr_type_to_str(uint32_t type)
diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_sr_stream_format.h b/tools/libxc/xc_sr_stream_format.h
index 051afa7dcd..37a7da6eab 100644
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_sr_stream_format.h
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_sr_stream_format.h
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@  struct xc_sr_dhdr
 
 #define DHDR_TYPE_X86_PV  0x00000001U
 #define DHDR_TYPE_X86_HVM 0x00000002U
-#define DHDR_TYPE_X86_PVH 0x00000003U
-#define DHDR_TYPE_ARM     0x00000004U
 
 /*
  * Record Header
diff --git a/tools/python/xen/migration/libxc.py b/tools/python/xen/migration/libxc.py
index 70bcb8d15b..432750c9fa 100644
--- a/tools/python/xen/migration/libxc.py
+++ b/tools/python/xen/migration/libxc.py
@@ -32,14 +32,10 @@ 
 
 DHDR_TYPE_x86_pv  = 0x00000001
 DHDR_TYPE_x86_hvm = 0x00000002
-DHDR_TYPE_x86_pvh = 0x00000003
-DHDR_TYPE_arm     = 0x00000004
 
 dhdr_type_to_str = {
     DHDR_TYPE_x86_pv  : "x86 PV",
     DHDR_TYPE_x86_hvm : "x86 HVM",
-    DHDR_TYPE_x86_pvh : "x86 PVH",
-    DHDR_TYPE_arm     : "ARM",
 }
 
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