Re: [GIT PULL] xen: branch for v5.9-rc4

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Sep 06 2020 - 13:02:34 EST


On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 9:44 PM Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It contains a small series for fixing a problem with Xen PVH guests
> when running as backends (e.g. as dom0). Mapping other guests' memory
> now is working via ZONE_DEVICE, thus not requiring to abuse the memory
> hotplug functionality for that purpose.

Tssk. This really isn't a bug-fix, it's clearly new development.

I'm going to let it slide since it seems so contained, but don't do this.

Linus