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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Xen Guest Kexec
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:39:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44031D44.9010606@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602271429.11577.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>

> When I was looking at this approach I was intending to retreive the pageframe 
> info from Xen and just run unpin on anything pinned, according to its type.

Is that possible?  As far I know the frametable where that info is
stored isn't readable by domains ...

> A really big chunk of the generic kexec code is there to make sure the new 
> kernel is not loaded in an area that conflicts with its destination, much of 
> the trampoline is there to enable the new kernel to be copied on top of the 
> old one.  Address conflicts should only be an issue if you want the second 
> kernel to be a dump kernel, in which case it needs to run in-place after 
> loading.

Yep, sure, all the trampoline stuff is effectively for that.
Retested, works.  Not sure what I did wrong last time ...

cheers,

  Gerd

-- 
Gerd 'just married' Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
I'm the hacker formerly known as Gerd Knorr.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-27 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-07 17:16 [PATCH] Xen Guest Kexec Mark Williamson
2005-07-08  8:59 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-08 14:35   ` Mark Williamson
2005-07-08 17:35 ` Mark Williamson
2006-02-23 10:52 ` Horms
2006-02-23 11:22   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-02-23 11:32     ` Mark Williamson
2006-02-23 13:03       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-02-23 14:49         ` Mark Williamson
2006-02-24 14:35           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-02-27 14:29             ` Mark Williamson
2006-02-27 15:39               ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2006-02-23 11:36   ` Mark Williamson
2006-02-27  3:32     ` Horms
2006-02-27 14:58       ` Mark Williamson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-26 22:49 Ian Pratt
2006-02-27  7:10 ` Keir Fraser
2006-02-27 15:34   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-02-27 16:19     ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-01 12:09       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-01 14:10         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-01 15:03           ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-01 17:35             ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-02  9:16               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-02  9:43                 ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-02 11:34                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-02 11:55                     ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-02 16:36                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-02 16:48                         ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-03  8:39                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-03  9:14                             ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-03  9:35                               ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-03 11:19                                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-06 14:15                                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-06 16:04                                   ` Michael Vrable
2006-03-07 13:06                                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-07 13:42                                   ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-07 14:43                                     ` Gerd Hoffmann

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