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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Backport request
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:47:51 +0000
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On 13/01/14 09:49, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can you please backport c/s 0896bd8bea84526b00e00d2d076f4f953a3d73cb
> "x86: map portion of kexec crash area that is within the direct map
> area" to staging-4.3 ASAP, as following the backport of
> 8d611a00d3389d9c16506326e24145b94ac6fb86 "kexec/x86: do not map crash
> kernel area", kexec loading is broken in exactly the same way as it was
> in staging.

This shouldn't be necessary for 4.3 as the old kexec implementation
didn't use map_domain_page() but used several fixmap slots instead.

If this is broken in our XenServer 4.3 tree it's because we've
backported the new kexec implementation and we'll have to do the
backport of 0896bd8be ourselves.

David