[PATCH 23/24] hvc_xen: allow dom0_write_console for HVM guests

Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Wed Aug 1 12:04:45 EDT 2012


On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:34:05PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On ARM all guests are HVM guests, including Dom0.
> > Allow dom0_write_console to be called by an HVM domain.
> 
> Um, but xen_hvm_domain() != xen_pv_domain() so won't this return without
> printing anything?

Nope, it would call dom0_write_console that issues a console hypercall.
However I am going to remove this patch and rely on the simple serial
emulator we have in Xen for early_printk stuff

> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c |    5 +----
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
> > index 3c04fb8..949edc2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
> > @@ -616,12 +616,9 @@ static void xenboot_write_console(struct console *console, const char *string,
> >  	unsigned int linelen, off = 0;
> >  	const char *pos;
> >  
> > -	if (!xen_pv_domain())
> > -		return;
> > -
> >  	dom0_write_console(0, string, len);
> >  
> > -	if (xen_initial_domain())
> > +	if (!xen_pv_domain())
> >  		return;
> >  
> >  	domU_write_console(0, "(early) ", 8);
> > -- 
> > 1.7.2.5
> 



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