From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>, <x86@kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH linux v2 0/9] xen: pvhvm: support bootup on secondary vCPUs
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:43:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57961770.1080406@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aefc934f-a336-36a0-f3dd-de491b57ec11@arm.com>
On 25/07/16 14:17, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 25/07/16 13:38, David Vrabel wrote:
>> On 30/06/16 16:56, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>>> It may happen that Xen's and Linux's ideas of vCPU id diverge. In
>>> particular, when we crash on a secondary vCPU we may want to do kdump
>>> and unlike plain kexec where we do migrate_to_reboot_cpu() we try
>>> booting
>>> on the vCPU which crashed. This doesn't work very well for PVHVM
>>> guests as
>>> we have a number of hypercalls where we pass vCPU id as a parameter.
>>> These
>>> hypercalls either fail or do something unexpected. To solve the issue we
>>> need to have a mapping between Linux's and Xen's vCPU ids.
>>>
>>> This series solves the issue for x86 PVHVM guests. PV guests don't (and
>>> probably won't) support kdump so I always assume Xen's vCPU id ==
>>> Linux's
>>> vCPU id. ARM guests will probably need to get proper mapping once we
>>> start
>>> supporting kexec/kdump there.
>>
>> Applied to for-linus-4.8, thanks.
>
> It would have been nice to send a ping before applying. This patch
> series is containing Xen ARM code which has not been acked by Stefano,
> nor had feedback from ARM side.
The ARM parts are trivial and such a small part of this series, I saw no
need to wait.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-25 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-30 15:56 [PATCH linux v2 0/9] xen: pvhvm: support bootup on secondary vCPUs Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` [PATCH linux v2 1/9] x86/xen: update cpuid.h from Xen-4.7 Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` [PATCH linux v2 2/9] x86/acpi: store ACPI ids from MADT for future usage Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` [PATCH linux v2 3/9] xen: introduce xen_vcpu_id mapping Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` [PATCH linux v2 4/9] x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping for HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` [PATCH linux v2 5/9] x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping when pointing vcpu_info to the shared_info page Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` [PATCH linux v2 6/9] xen/events: use xen_vcpu_id mapping in events_base Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` [PATCH linux v2 7/9] xen/events: fifo: use xen_vcpu_id mapping Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` [PATCH linux v2 8/9] xen/evtchn: " Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` [PATCH linux v2 9/9] xen/pvhvm: run xen_vcpu_setup() for the boot CPU Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-06-30 15:56 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-25 9:17 ` [PATCH linux v2 0/9] xen: pvhvm: support bootup on secondary vCPUs Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-25 9:17 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-25 12:38 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-07-25 13:17 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-25 13:39 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-25 14:01 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-25 14:09 ` David Vrabel
2016-07-25 14:09 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-07-25 14:19 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-25 19:18 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-26 8:28 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-26 8:28 ` [Xen-devel] " Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-25 19:18 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-25 14:19 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-25 21:37 ` [Xen-devel] " Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-25 21:37 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-25 14:01 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-25 13:39 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-25 13:43 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2016-07-25 21:16 ` [Xen-devel] " Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-25 21:16 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-25 13:43 ` David Vrabel
2016-07-25 13:17 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-25 12:38 ` David Vrabel
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