Hi Andi, This patch series implements the Linux Xen guest as a paravirt_ops backend. The features in implemented this patch series are: * domU only * UP only (most code is SMP-safe, but there's no way to create a new vcpu) * writable pagetables, with late pinning/early unpinning (no shadow pagetable support) * supports both PAE and non-PAE modes * xen hvc console (console=hvc0) * virtual block device (blockfront) * virtual network device (netfront) The patch series is in three parts: 1-2 Cleanup patches to various parts of the kernel 3-15 Extensions to the core code and/or paravirt ops, needed to support Xen. Includes hooks into get/setting pte values and the new patching machinery. 16-26 The Xen paravirt_ops implementation itself. (Some of the earlier patches in the series have already been posted, but are included to make the series self-contained.) I've tried to make each patch as self-explanatory as possible. The series is based on 2.6.21-rc2-git1. Changes since the previous posting: - Moved the arch_*_mmap stubs to asm-generic/mm_hooks.h, and included that in asm-*/mmu_context.h (James Bottomley) - Use unsigned long consistently for addresses (Andi Kleen) - Moved xenboot_console declaration to its own header. (Andi Kleen) - Renamed FIX_PARAVIRT to FIX_PARAVIRT_BOOTMAP to emphasize that its intended for bootstrap only (Ingo Molnar) - Cleaned up headers a fair bit. Moved a lot of the native_* functions to their "home" headers, so that they can be used either for native paravirt boots, or when CONFIG_PARAVIRT is disabled. This cuts down on duplication, and makes paravirt.h simpler. - Various cleanups from Adrian Bunk Thanks, J --
