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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c, branch v4.2.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-4.2-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T18:53:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-01T18:53:46+00:00</published>
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Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
 "Xen features and cleanups for 4.2-rc0:

   - add "make xenconfig" to assist in generating configs for Xen guests

   - preparatory cleanups necessary for supporting 64 KiB pages in ARM
     guests

   - automatically use hvc0 as the default console in ARM guests"

* tag 'for-linus-4.2-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  block/xen-blkback: s/nr_pages/nr_segs/
  block/xen-blkfront: Remove invalid comment
  block/xen-blkfront: Remove unused macro MAXIMUM_OUTSTANDING_BLOCK_REQS
  arm/xen: Drop duplicate define mfn_to_virt
  xen/grant-table: Remove unused macro SPP
  xen/xenbus: client: Fix call of virt_to_mfn in xenbus_grant_ring
  xen: Include xen/page.h rather than asm/xen/page.h
  kconfig: add xenconfig defconfig helper
  kconfig: clarify kvmconfig is for kvm
  xen/pcifront: Remove usage of struct timeval
  xen/tmem: use BUILD_BUG_ON() in favor of BUG_ON()
  hvc_xen: avoid uninitialized variable warning
  xenbus: avoid uninitialized variable warning
  xen/arm: allow console=hvc0 to be omitted for guests
  arm,arm64/xen: move Xen initialization earlier
  arm/xen: Correctly check if the event channel interrupt is present
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Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
 "Xen features and cleanups for 4.2-rc0:

   - add "make xenconfig" to assist in generating configs for Xen guests

   - preparatory cleanups necessary for supporting 64 KiB pages in ARM
     guests

   - automatically use hvc0 as the default console in ARM guests"

* tag 'for-linus-4.2-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  block/xen-blkback: s/nr_pages/nr_segs/
  block/xen-blkfront: Remove invalid comment
  block/xen-blkfront: Remove unused macro MAXIMUM_OUTSTANDING_BLOCK_REQS
  arm/xen: Drop duplicate define mfn_to_virt
  xen/grant-table: Remove unused macro SPP
  xen/xenbus: client: Fix call of virt_to_mfn in xenbus_grant_ring
  xen: Include xen/page.h rather than asm/xen/page.h
  kconfig: add xenconfig defconfig helper
  kconfig: clarify kvmconfig is for kvm
  xen/pcifront: Remove usage of struct timeval
  xen/tmem: use BUILD_BUG_ON() in favor of BUG_ON()
  hvc_xen: avoid uninitialized variable warning
  xenbus: avoid uninitialized variable warning
  xen/arm: allow console=hvc0 to be omitted for guests
  arm,arm64/xen: move Xen initialization earlier
  arm/xen: Correctly check if the event channel interrupt is present
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<entry>
<title>xen/pcifront: Don't use deprecated function pci_scan_bus_parented()</title>
<updated>2015-06-12T20:26:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-28T09:32:33+00:00</published>
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Use pci_scan_root_bus() instead of deprecated function
pci_scan_bus_parented().

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang &lt;wangyijing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
CC: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org</content>
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Use pci_scan_root_bus() instead of deprecated function
pci_scan_bus_parented().

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang &lt;wangyijing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
CC: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org</pre>
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<entry>
<title>xen/pcifront: Remove usage of struct timeval</title>
<updated>2015-06-08T09:49:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tina Ruchandani</name>
<email>ruchandani.tina@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-19T06:08:09+00:00</published>
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struct timeval uses a 32-bit field for representing seconds, which
will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond. Replace struct timeval with
64-bit ktime_t which is 2038 safe.  This is part of a larger effort to
remove instances of 32-bit timekeeping variables (timeval, time_t and
timespec) from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani &lt;ruchandani.tina@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
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struct timeval uses a 32-bit field for representing seconds, which
will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond. Replace struct timeval with
64-bit ktime_t which is 2038 safe.  This is part of a larger effort to
remove instances of 32-bit timekeeping variables (timeval, time_t and
timespec) from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani &lt;ruchandani.tina@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ring</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T09:56:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Liu</name>
<email>wei.liu2@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-03T06:44:59+00:00</published>
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Originally Xen PV drivers only use single-page ring to pass along
information. This might limit the throughput between frontend and
backend.

The patch extends Xenbus driver to support multi-page ring, which in
general should improve throughput if ring is the bottleneck. Changes to
various frontend / backend to adapt to the new interface are also
included.

Affected Xen drivers:
* blkfront/back
* netfront/back
* pcifront/back
* scsifront/back
* vtpmfront

The interface is documented, as before, in xenbus_client.c.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant &lt;paul.durrant@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
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Originally Xen PV drivers only use single-page ring to pass along
information. This might limit the throughput between frontend and
backend.

The patch extends Xenbus driver to support multi-page ring, which in
general should improve throughput if ring is the bottleneck. Changes to
various frontend / backend to adapt to the new interface are also
included.

Affected Xen drivers:
* blkfront/back
* netfront/back
* pcifront/back
* scsifront/back
* vtpmfront

The interface is documented, as before, in xenbus_client.c.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant &lt;paul.durrant@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'pci/enumeration', 'pci/hotplug', 'pci/misc', 'pci/numa' and 'pci/virtualization' into next</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T22:10:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bhelgaas@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-19T22:10:33+00:00</published>
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* pci/enumeration:
  PCI: Remove fixed parameter in pci_iov_resource_bar()
  PCI: Add informational printk for invalid BARs
  PCI: Shrink decoding-disabled window while sizing BARs
  PCI: Restore detection of read-only BARs

* pci/hotplug:
  PCI: Remove unused and broken to_hotplug_slot()

* pci/misc:
  PCI: Make FLR and AF FLR reset warning messages different
  PCI: Simplify if-return sequences
  PCI: Delete unnecessary NULL pointer checks

* pci/numa:
  PCI: Allow numa_node override via sysfs

* pci/virtualization:
  xen/pcifront: Process failure for pcifront_(re)scan_root()
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* pci/enumeration:
  PCI: Remove fixed parameter in pci_iov_resource_bar()
  PCI: Add informational printk for invalid BARs
  PCI: Shrink decoding-disabled window while sizing BARs
  PCI: Restore detection of read-only BARs

* pci/hotplug:
  PCI: Remove unused and broken to_hotplug_slot()

* pci/misc:
  PCI: Make FLR and AF FLR reset warning messages different
  PCI: Simplify if-return sequences
  PCI: Delete unnecessary NULL pointer checks

* pci/numa:
  PCI: Allow numa_node override via sysfs

* pci/virtualization:
  xen/pcifront: Process failure for pcifront_(re)scan_root()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PCI: Delete unnecessary NULL pointer checks</title>
<updated>2014-11-11T04:02:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markus Elfring</name>
<email>elfring@users.sourceforge.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-11T04:02:17+00:00</published>
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The functions pci_dev_put(), pci_pme_wakeup_bus(), and put_device() return
immediately if their argument is NULL.  Thus the test before the call is
not needed.

Remove these unnecessary tests.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;</content>
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The functions pci_dev_put(), pci_pme_wakeup_bus(), and put_device() return
immediately if their argument is NULL.  Thus the test before the call is
not needed.

Remove these unnecessary tests.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/pcifront: Process failure for pcifront_(re)scan_root()</title>
<updated>2014-11-06T04:14:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Gang</name>
<email>gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-06T03:04:45+00:00</published>
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When pcifront_try_connect() finds no PCI roots, it falls back to calling
pcifront_scan_root() for 0000:00.  If that fails, it used to switch to
XenbusStateConnected and return success (because xenbus_switch_state()
currently always succeeds).

If pcifront_scan_root() fails, leave the XenbusState unchanged and return
an error code.

Similarly, pcifront_attach_devices() falls back to calling
pcifront_rescan_root() for 0000:00.  If that fails, it used to switch to
XenbusStateConnected and return an error code.

If pcifront_rescan_root() fails, leave the XenbusState unchanged and return
the error code.

[bhelgaas: changelog]
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;</content>
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When pcifront_try_connect() finds no PCI roots, it falls back to calling
pcifront_scan_root() for 0000:00.  If that fails, it used to switch to
XenbusStateConnected and return success (because xenbus_switch_state()
currently always succeeds).

If pcifront_scan_root() fails, leave the XenbusState unchanged and return
an error code.

Similarly, pcifront_attach_devices() falls back to calling
pcifront_rescan_root() for 0000:00.  If that fails, it used to switch to
XenbusStateConnected and return an error code.

If pcifront_rescan_root() fails, leave the XenbusState unchanged and return
the error code.

[bhelgaas: changelog]
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen: remove DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro</title>
<updated>2014-10-06T09:27:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-08T16:30:41+00:00</published>
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The DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro looks a bit weird and causes sparse
errors.

Replace the uses with standard structure definitions instead.  This is
similar to pci and usb device registration.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
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The DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro looks a bit weird and causes sparse
errors.

Replace the uses with standard structure definitions instead.  This is
similar to pci and usb device registration.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()</title>
<updated>2014-04-18T12:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-17T17:06:10+00:00</published>
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Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T06:00:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T06:00:18+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...
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Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...
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