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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xenstored: allow guests to reintroduce
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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:34:29 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 09, Ian Campbell wrote:

> > This patch is only for kexec boots, with kdump the crash in the kdump
> > kernel may happen as well but so far I have not seen it. Maybe because
> > the kdump kernel runs in its own memory range.

I think the kernel still has some bug with watch handling, since the
crash is (in my testing) a jump to NULL. Its worth debugging that part.

> > If you prefer, kexec can be modified to check for certain xenstored
> > properties.
> 
> That might be a good place to check, although I think we are still
> missing the mechanism to expose such properties...

Is there no way for an application running in a guest to query xenstore
properties?

Olaf