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@ 2013-06-13 15:24 Rob Hoes
  2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 01/30] libxl: Add LIBXL_SHUTDOWN_REASON_UNKNOWN Rob Hoes
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From: Rob Hoes @ 2013-06-13 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel

This is version 2 of this patch series to fix the OCaml binding to libxl.

I believe I have addressed all the points raised by Dave Scott and Ian Campbell. Sorry for the delay in getting this new series out!

The main changes are:
* Several fixes to ensure the bindings play well with the OCaml GC. This includes properly using macros such as CAMLparam* and CAMLreturn* for _all_ OCaml values (even intermediate ones), and using "custom" blocks to encapsulate pointers to C code (including handy "finalize" functions for cleanup.
* Fixes in the way KeyedUnions are handled.
* Use the libxl init function to generate default records for libxl types.
* Improve the functions that deal with event handling. We now have some higher-level functions to makes this easier as well as safer, and errors are translated properly.

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The following series of patches fill in most of the gaps in the OCaml bindings to libxl, to make them useful for clients such as xapi/xenopsd (from XCP).
There are a number of bugfixes to the existing bindings as well. I have an experimental version of xenopsd that successfully uses the new bindings.

An earlier version of the first half of the series was submitted to the last by Ian Campbell on 20 Nov 2012. With his permission, I have updated most of them to fix some issues (which were discussed on the mailing list at the time). I have left Ian's signed-off-by line on those patches (please let me know if that is not appropriate).

For convenience, the patches in this series may be pulled using:

git pull git://github.com/robhoes/xen.git hydrogen-upstream-v2

Cheers,
Rob

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2013-06-13 15:24 libxl: ocaml: improve the bindings Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 01/30] libxl: Add LIBXL_SHUTDOWN_REASON_UNKNOWN Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 02/30] libxl: idl: allow KeyedUnion members to be empty Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 03/30] libxl: idl: add domain_type field to libxl_dominfo struct Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 04/30] libxl: idl: complete some enums in the IDL with their defaults Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 05/30] libxl: ocaml: fix code intended to output comments before definitions Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 06/30] libxl: ocaml: support for Arrays in bindings generator Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 07/30] libxl: ocaml: avoid reserved words in type and field names Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 08/30] libxl: ocaml: support for KeyedUnion in the bindings generator Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 09/30] libxl: ocaml: add some more builtin types Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 10/30] libxc: ocaml: add simple binding for xentoollog (output only) Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 11/30] libxl: ocaml: allocate a long lived libxl context Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 12/30] libxl: ocaml: switch all functions over to take a context Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 13/30] libxl: ocaml: propagate the libxl return error code in exceptions Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 14/30] libxl: ocaml: make Val_defbool GC-proof Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 15/30] libxl: ocaml: add domain_build/create_info/config and events to the bindings Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 16/30] libxl: ocaml: add META to list of generated files in Makefile Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 17/30] libxl: ocaml: fix the handling of enums in the bindings generator Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 18/30] libxl: ocaml: use the "string option" type for IDL strings Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:58   ` Andrew Cooper
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 19/30] libxl: ocaml: add xen_console_read Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 20/30] libxl: ocaml: add dominfo_list and dominfo_get Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 21/30] libxl: ocaml: implement some simple tests Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 22/30] libxl: ocaml: event management Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 23/30] libxl: ocaml: allow device operations to be called asynchronously Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 24/30] libxl: ocaml: add NIC helper functions Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 25/30] libxl: ocaml: add PCI device " Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 26/30] libxl: ocaml: add disk and cdrom " Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 27/30] libxl: ocaml: add VM lifecycle operations Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 28/30] libxl: ocaml: in send_debug_keys, clean up before raising exception Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 29/30] libxl: ocaml: provide defaults for libxl types Rob Hoes
2013-06-13 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 30/30] libxl: ocaml: use CAMLlocal1 macro rather than value-type in auto-generated C-code Rob Hoes
2013-08-22 10:21 ` libxl: ocaml: improve the bindings Rob Hoes
2013-08-22 10:28   ` Ian Campbell

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