From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.3
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:49:50 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130409024950.GC11444@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365448014-12119-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Hi David,
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 08:06:49PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> The series adds support for the new hypercall ABI which should be
> provided by Xen 4.3. Images are loaded into Xen directly with no
> kernel involvement.
>
> Do not apply until the hypervisor side patches are applied to Xen.
Please let me know when you are ready for these to be applied
by reposting them.
> Patch 1 is unrelated but kexec wouldn't work for me without it. Not
> sure why I had problems, perhaps a toolstack specific issue?
>
> Patch 2 makes libxc 4.3 mandatory for Xen support.
>
> Patch 3-4 removes a use of /proc/iomem in favour of libxc.
>
> Patch 5 adds the support for loading, unloading, and exec'ing an image
> in Xen.
>
> This series explicitly drops support for older version of libxc/Xen as
> supporting kexec on these hypervisors requires kernel support that
> will never be available upstream.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Patch from Don Sultz: use libxc for vmcoreinfo.
> - Use xc_get_max_cpus() to get number of PCPUs.
> - Enable unload and exec of images.
>
> David
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-08 19:06 [PATCHv2 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.3 David Vrabel
2013-04-08 19:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] purgatory: put variables altered by kexec in .data not .bss David Vrabel
2013-04-08 19:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] kexec/xen: require libxc from Xen 4.3 David Vrabel
2013-04-08 19:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] kexec/xen: use libxc to get location of crash notes David Vrabel
2013-04-08 19:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] kexec/xen: switch to use xc_kexec_get_range for get_xen_vmcoreinfo David Vrabel
2013-04-08 19:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] kexec/xen: directly load images images into Xen David Vrabel
2013-04-09 21:20 ` Daniel Kiper
2013-04-17 12:56 ` Daniel Kiper
2013-04-17 13:53 ` David Vrabel
2013-04-17 14:12 ` Daniel Kiper
2013-04-09 2:49 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2013-04-09 21:16 ` [PATCHv2 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.3 Daniel Kiper
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