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* [PATCHv3 0/8] kexec: extend kexec hypercall for use with pv-ops kernels
@ 2013-04-08 18:59 David Vrabel
  2013-04-08 18:59 ` [PATCH 1/8] x86: give FIX_EFI_MPF its own fixmap entry David Vrabel
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  0 siblings, 8 replies; 34+ messages in thread
From: David Vrabel @ 2013-04-08 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Ian Jackson, Daniel Kiper, kexec, David Vrabel, Ian Campbell

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 -- a
SHUTDOWN_crash by dom0 will trigger the kexec.

Patches 7 and 8 add the libxc API for the kexec calls.  These have
been acked-by Ian Campbell already.

The required patch series for kexec-tools will be posted shortly.

Changes since v2: 

- Provide old struct xen_kexec_load if __XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION__ < 4.3
- Adjust new struct xen_kexec_load to avoid unnecessary padding.
- Use domheap pages for the image and control pages.
- Remove the DBG() macros from the reloc code.

David


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* [PATCHv4 0/8] kexec: extend kexec hypercall for use with pv-ops kernels
@ 2013-04-16 17:13 David Vrabel
  2013-04-16 17:13 ` [PATCH 5/8] kexec: extend hypercall with improved load/unload ops David Vrabel
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From: David Vrabel @ 2013-04-16 17:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: kexec, Daniel Kiper, Keir Fraser, David Vrabel

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.

This has now missed the code freeze deadline but could it be
considered for 4.3 anyway?  kexec isn't a core piece of functionality
and I see minimal risk of introducing regressions to Xen as a whole
with this series.

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 -- a
SHUTDOWN_crash by dom0 will trigger the kexec.

Patches 7 and 8 add the libxc API for the kexec calls.  These have
been acked-by Ian Campbell already.

The required patch series for kexec-tools have previously been posted
and this series has been rebased on the latest kexec-tools and is
available from the xen-v3 branch of:

http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/dvrabel/kexec-tools.git;a=summary

Changes since v3:

- Use paddr_t and page_to_maddr() etc. for portability.
- Add explicit padding to hypercall structures where required.
- Minor cleanup of the kexec_reloc assembly.
- Print a message before exec'ing a crash image.
- Style fixes (tabs, trailing whitespace) and typos.
- Fix a bug where using the V1 interface and unloading a image may crash.

Changes since v2: 

- Provide old struct xen_kexec_load if __XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION__ < 4.3
- Adjust new struct xen_kexec_load to avoid unnecessary padding.
- Use domheap pages for the image and control pages.
- Remove the DBG() macros from the reloc code.

David


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* [PATCH 0/8] kexec: extended kexec hypercall for use with pv-ops kernels
@ 2013-02-21 17:48 David Vrabel
  2013-02-21 17:48 ` [PATCH 5/8] kexec: extend hypercall with improved load/unload ops David Vrabel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 34+ messages in thread
From: David Vrabel @ 2013-02-21 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Daniel Kiper, kexec, David Vrabel

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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2013-04-09  7:44   ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2013-04-09 16:17     ` David Vrabel
2013-04-10  8:36       ` Jan Beulich
2013-04-08 18:59 ` [PATCH 5/8] kexec: extend hypercall with improved load/unload ops David Vrabel
2013-04-09 21:02   ` Daniel Kiper
2013-04-15 18:58     ` David Vrabel
2013-04-16 12:05       ` Daniel Kiper
2013-04-16 14:57     ` David Vrabel
2013-04-08 18:59 ` [PATCH 6/8] xen: kexec crash image when dom0 crashes David Vrabel
2013-04-09 21:11   ` Daniel Kiper
2013-04-08 18:59 ` [PATCH 7/8] libxc: add hypercall buffer arrays David Vrabel
2013-04-08 18:59 ` [PATCH 8/8] libxc: add API for kexec hypercall David Vrabel
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2013-04-16 17:13 [PATCHv4 0/8] kexec: extend kexec hypercall for use with pv-ops kernels David Vrabel
2013-04-16 17:13 ` [PATCH 5/8] kexec: extend hypercall with improved load/unload ops David Vrabel
2013-04-17 12:51   ` Daniel Kiper
2013-04-18 16:29     ` David Vrabel
2013-04-19  8:08       ` Daniel Kiper
2013-02-21 17:48 [PATCH 0/8] kexec: extended kexec hypercall for use with pv-ops kernels David Vrabel
2013-02-21 17:48 ` [PATCH 5/8] kexec: extend hypercall with improved load/unload ops David Vrabel
2013-02-21 22:41   ` Daniel Kiper
2013-03-08 11:23   ` Daniel Kiper
2013-03-08 11:40     ` David Vrabel
2013-03-08 12:21       ` Daniel Kiper
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