RE: [PATCH 0/2] xen/arm: static event channel

Henry Wang posted 2 patches 1 year, 7 months ago
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RE: [PATCH 0/2] xen/arm: static event channel
Posted by Henry Wang 1 year, 7 months ago
Hi Rahul and all,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahul Singh <Rahul.Singh@arm.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen/arm: static event channel
> 
> Hi All,
> > On 26 Sep 2022, at 1:12 pm, Bertrand Marquis
> <Bertrand.Marquis@arm.com> wrote:
> > Hi Rahul,
> >
> > Please give the necessary justification for inclusion in 4.17:
> > - severity of the bug fixed
> The severity of the bug is high as without this fixed system with ACPI support
> will fail to boot.

I agree on that, dom0 boot from ACPI on Arm is what we currently supported.
So I think we need to fix the current issue for 4.17.

Besides the bugfix patch, the other patch in this series is a pure doc change
so it should be safe.

I think we still need Arm maintainers' R-b or ack for this series, and as long as
This series is properly reviewed:

Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>

> 
> > - probability and impact of potential issues that the patch could add.
> 
> As we are not supporting the static event channel for ACPI, it is okay to move
> alloc_static_evtchn() under acpi_disabled check.

Agreed.

Kind regards,
Henry

> 
> Regards,
> Rahul
>