Re: [PATCH 0 of 6] Add support for a VM generation ID virtual device (v2)

[Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>]

On 29/11/2011 10:53, "Paul Durrant" <paul.durrant@citrix.com> wrote:

> Patch 1 adds the device and an acpi_info field to allow population
> of the ADDR package.

Applied.

> Patch 2 adds ctype infrastructure to hvloader in preparation for...

Applied.

> Patch 3 adds all the code to plumb the value of a new 'generation_id'
> parameter in the VM config through to the VM generation id buffer at
> VM boot time.

Applied the hvmloader part. Forgot to change the comment that refers to
libxl, oops! But I didn;t check in the libxl part (it didn't apply cleanly
to tip anyway).

> Patch 4 adds an implementation of sprintf() to hvmloader.

Applied (inc. snprintf update).

> Patch 5 adds an implementation of xenstore-write to hvmloader.

Applied (inc. incremental fix).

> Patch 6 adds support for tracking the address of the VM generation id
> buffer (via xenstore) across save/restore or migrate and updating the
> value of the buffer with the value from the VM config file.

Applied the hvmloader part.

In summary, all the hvmloader changes are in. A toolstack maintainer should
check in the other toolstack parts.

 -- Keir