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From: Don Slutz <Don@CloudSwitch.com>
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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/8] kexec: extended kexec hypercall for use
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To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>, kexec@lists.infradead.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org

On 02/21/13 12:48, David Vrabel wrote:
> The series improves the kexec hypercall by making Xen responsible for
> loading and relocating the image.  This allows kexec to be usable by
> pv-ops kernels and should allow kexec to be usable from a HVM or PVH
> privileged domain.
>
> The first patch is a simple clean-up.
>
> The second patch allows hypercall structures to be ABI compatible
> between 32- and 64-bit guests (by reusing stuff present for domctls
> and sysctls).  This seems better than having to keep adding compat
> handling for new hypercalls etc.
>
> Patch 3 introduces the new ABI.
>
> Patch 4 and 5 nearly completely reimplement the kexec load, unload and
> exec sub-ops.  The old load_v1 sub-op is then implemented on top of
> the new code.
>
> Patch 6 calls the kexec image when dom0 crashes.  This avoids having
> to alter dom0 kernels to do a exec sub-op call on crash -- an existing
> SHUTDOWN_crash.
>
> Patches 7 and 8 add the libxc API for the kexec calls.
>
> The required patch series for kexec-tools will be posted shortly.
>
> David
>
>
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I have tested this patch set on a Fedora 17 dom0 with kernels:

3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64
3.6.5-1.fc17.x86_64

So:

Tested-by: Don Slutz <Don@CloudSwitch.com>

    -Don Slutz

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