[PATCH v1 0/12] libxl: new hotplug calling convention

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

This series implements a new hoplug calling convention for libxl.

The aim of this new convention is to reduce the blackout phase of 
migration when using complex hotplug scripts, like iSCSI or other kind 
of storage backends that might have a non trivial setup time.

There are some issues that I would like to discuss, the first one is 
the fact that pdev_path field in libxl_device_disk is no longuer used 
to store a physical path, since diskspec "target" can now contain 
"random" information to connect a block device. This is not a blocker 
for this series to be accepted, but I'm tempted to say that the easier 
way to solve this is to use a union for target and pdev_path, this 
way everything will work as expected, and semantics will be right.

The second issue is related to iSCSI and iscsiadm, specifically the 
way to set authentication parameters, which is done with command line 
parameters or editing files (which each distro seems to place in 
different locations). I will look into this to see if we can find a 
suitable solution.

Thanks for the comments, Roger.

Branch available in the git repository at:
  git://xenbits.xen.org/people/royger/xen.git iscsi_v1

*Acked

Roger Pau Monne (12):
     *libxl: libxl__prepare_ao_device should reset num_exec
      libxl: remove double check in NetBSD hotplug
      libxl: move libxl_device_action to idl
      libxl: pack hotplug related variables
      libxl: add new hotplug interface support to hotplug script callers
      libxl: add support for different hotplug interfaces
      libxl: add prepare/unprepare operations to the libxl public interface
      libxl: add disk specific remove functions
      xl: add support for new hotplug interface to block-attach/detach
      libxl: add local attach support for new hotplug scripts
      hotplug: document new hotplug interface
      hotplug/Linux: add iscsi block hotplug script

 docs/misc/libxl-hotplug-interface.txt |  167 +++++++++++++++++
 tools/hotplug/Linux/Makefile          |    1 +
 tools/hotplug/Linux/block-iscsi       |  258 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/libxl/libxl.c                   |  332 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 tools/libxl/libxl.h                   |    8 +
 tools/libxl/libxl_bootloader.c        |    1 +
 tools/libxl/libxl_create.c            |   62 ++++++-
 tools/libxl/libxl_device.c            |  153 +++++++++++++---
 tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h          |   87 ++++++++-
 tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c             |   78 ++++++---
 tools/libxl/libxl_netbsd.c            |   10 +-
 tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl           |    1 +
 tools/libxl/libxl_types_internal.idl  |   10 +
 tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c              |    5 +
 14 files changed, 1071 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/misc/libxl-hotplug-interface.txt
 create mode 100644 tools/hotplug/Linux/block-iscsi