Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/11] xen: Initial kexec/kdump implementation

Daniel Kiper
2013-01-11T13:47:55Z

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:49:44PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 12:34 +0000, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > I think that new kexec hypercall function should mimics kexec syscall.
>
> We want to have an interface can be used by non-Linux domains (both dom0
> and domU) as well though, so please bear this in mind.

I agree, but all arguments passed to kexec syscall are quiet generic and they
do not impose any limitations. Just look into include/linux/kexec.h.
That is why I think that a lot of things could be taken from
Linux kexec implementation.

Daniel