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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: [PATCH 00 of 12] xen: add save/restore/migrate for Xen domains
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 14:41:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <patchbomb.1211550067@localhost> (raw)

Hi Ingo,

This series adds save/restore/migrate for Xen domains.  This is almost
entirely contained within the Xen-specific code.

The only exception is the WARN_ON I remove in hres_timers_resume,
which is spurious in the case of a Xen suspend/resume, since we don't
offline all the CPUs.

This also adds another user of the freezer, since it turns out to
solve a somewhat tricky problem.  The problem is that Xen pagetables
are expressed in terms of machine frame numbers - ie, the page numbers
of the underlying host machine.  When the domain is saved, all the
mfns everywhere are canonicalized into guest-relative pfns in the save
image.  The tricky part is that when preemption is enabled, it's
possible the suspend will preempt a pagetable manipulation, which will
leave a machine frame number sitting in a register or on the stack
which will not be canonicalized.

The freezer solves this because it makes sure that every thread is
quiesced at a well known point, which is not during a pagetable
update.  So by freezing everything and then stopping all the
processors in stop_machine, we can make sure the system is in a
saveable state.

The freezer is only required when preemption is enabled, since
stop_machine will quiesce all processors (and therefore threads) at
suitable points anyway.

     J


             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-23 13:41 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 01 of 12] xen: make phys_to_machine structure dynamic Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 02 of 12] xen: add configurable max domain size Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 03 of 12] xen: efficiently support a holey p2m table Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 04 of 12] xen: make dummy_shared_info non-static Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 05 of 12] xen: add p2m mfn_list_list Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-28 12:28   ` [bisected] " Ingo Molnar
2008-05-28 12:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-28 14:02     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-28 14:10       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-06-02 10:10       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-02 10:10         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-02 13:12         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-30  7:40     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-05-30  7:40       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-05-30  8:04       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-30  8:04         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 06 of 12] xen: add rebind_evtchn_irq Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 07 of 12] xen: fix unbind_from_irq() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 08 of 12] xen-console: add save/restore Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-02 11:17   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-02 11:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-02 11:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-02 11:18       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-02 11:50     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-02 11:50       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-02 12:13     ` [Xen-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2008-06-02 12:13       ` Markus Armbruster
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 09 of 12] xenbus: rebind irq on restore Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 10 of 12] xen: implement save/restore Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-29  7:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-29  7:31     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-29  8:00     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-29  8:00       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-29  8:02     ` [PATCH] xen: fix compilation when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is disabled Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-29  8:02       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-30  0:24       ` Randy Dunlap
2008-06-02 10:13         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-02 10:13           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-02  9:21   ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 10 of 12] xen: implement save/restore Isaku Yamahata
2008-06-02 10:03     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-02 10:47       ` Isaku Yamahata
2008-06-02 10:47         ` Isaku Yamahata
2008-06-02 10:52         ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-02 10:52           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 11 of 12] xen: maintain clock offset over save/restore Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 12 of 12] hrtimer: remove warning in hres_timers_resume Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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