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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Konrad <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: rebind virqs to existing eventchannel ports
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 17:28:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110809152806.GA12710@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312881460.26263.46.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>

On Tue, Aug 09, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 17:20 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > During a kexec boot some virqs such as timer and debugirq were already
> > registered by the old kernel.  The hypervisor will return -EEXISTS from
> > the new EVTCHNOP_bind_virq request and the BUG in bind_virq_to_irq()
> > triggers.  Catch the -EEXISTS error and loop through all possible ports to find
> > what port belongs to the virq/cpu combo.
> 
> Would it be better to proactively just query the status of all event
> channels early on, like you do in find_virq, and setup the irq info
> structures as appropriate? Rather than waiting for an -EEXISTS I mean.

Now that I read that again more carefully: 
No idea if thats possible, I will leave that answer to Jeremy/Konrad.

Olaf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-09 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-04 16:20 [PATCH 0/3] [v4] kexec and kdump for Xen PVonHVM guests Olaf Hering
2011-08-04 16:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_introduce to shutdown watches from old kernel Olaf Hering
2011-08-09  9:15   ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2011-08-09  9:28     ` Olaf Hering
2011-08-04 16:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: rebind virqs to existing eventchannel ports Olaf Hering
2011-08-09  9:17   ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2011-08-09  9:29     ` Olaf Hering
2011-08-09 11:25       ` Ian Campbell
2011-08-09 15:28     ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-08-09 18:51       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-08-04 16:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen/pv-on-hvm kexec+kdump: reset PV devices in kexec or crash kernel Olaf Hering
2011-08-09  9:23   ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2011-08-09  9:44     ` Olaf Hering
2011-08-09 11:26       ` Ian Campbell
2011-08-09 19:02 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] [v4] kexec and kdump for Xen PVonHVM guests Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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