From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>,
Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/27] tools/libxl: Infrastructure for reading a libxl migration v2 stream
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:55:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1434538523.13744.319.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558150A9.70003@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 18:49 +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
> On 06/17/2015 06:15 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 11:09 +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
> >>> + if (hdr->options & RESTORE_OPT_BIG_ENDIAN) {
> >>> + ret = ERROR_FAIL;
> >>> + LOG(ERROR, "Unable to handle big endian streams");
> >>> + goto err;
> >>
> >> I think it is better to check if the host is big endian or not.
> >
> > It's not, there are no big endian ports of Xen today. I think encoding
> > that here is fine.
>
> IIRC, arm supports big endian. Do we only use arm+little endian?
Currently, yes. There are plans afoot to support big endian _guests_ but
not big endian hypervisor (and by extension IMHO tools or at least the
migration stream should remain LE). That would be a lot of faff for very
little benefit IMHO.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-17 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-15 13:44 [PATCH 00/27] Libxl migration v2 Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 01/27] tools/libxl: Fix libxl__ev_child_inuse() check for not-yet-initialised children Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 13:21 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 13:36 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 13:47 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 14:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 15:26 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:24 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 13:39 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 02/27] tools/libxc: Always compile the compat qemu variables into xc_sr_context Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 13:22 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 03/27] tools/libxl: Stash all restore parameters in domain_create_state Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 13:37 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 14:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-18 2:32 ` Yang Hongyang
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 04/27] tools/xl: Mandatory flag indicating the format of the migration stream Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 13:39 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 14:10 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 05/27] tools/libxl: Introduce ROUNDUP() Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 13:39 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 06/27] libxl: cancellation: Preparations for save/restore cancellation Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 07/27] libxl: cancellation: Handle SIGTERM in save/restore helper Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 08/27] tools/libxl: Extra APIs for the save helper Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 13:50 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:03 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 09/27] tools/libxl: Pass restore_fd as a parameter to libxl__xc_domain_restore() Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 13:53 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 10/27] docs: Libxl migration v2 stream specification Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 13:58 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-08 13:49 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-08 13:58 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 11/27] tools/python: Libxc migration v2 infrastructure Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 14:01 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 12/27] tools/python: Libxl " Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 13/27] tools/python: Verification utility for v2 stream spec compliance Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 14/27] tools/python: Conversion utility for legacy migration streams Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 14:01 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 15/27] tools/libxl: Migration v2 stream format Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 14:04 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 16/27] tools/libxl: Infrastructure for reading a libxl migration v2 stream Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 14:31 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:01 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 15:35 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 3:09 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-17 10:15 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-17 10:49 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-17 10:55 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-06-17 6:03 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-17 9:47 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 7:57 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-17 9:50 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 10:01 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-17 10:48 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 17/27] tools/libxl: Support converting a legacy stream to a " Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 14:38 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:13 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 15:38 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 18/27] tools/libxl: Convert a legacy stream if needed Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 19/27] tools/libxc+libxl+xl: Restore v2 streams Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 14:53 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:23 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 15:39 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 20/27] tools/libxl: Infrastructure for writing a v2 stream Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 14:57 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:28 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 1:31 ` Yang Hongyang
2015-06-17 9:51 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 1:39 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-17 2:24 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-17 7:38 ` Yang Hongyang
2015-06-17 10:14 ` Wen Congyang
2015-07-10 10:55 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-10 11:03 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-10 11:05 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 21/27] tools/libxc+libxl+xl: Save v2 streams Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 14:59 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 22/27] docs/libxl: [RFC] Introduce CHECKPOINT_END to support migration v2 remus streams Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 15:00 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:30 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 3:30 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 23/27] tools/libxl: [RFC] Write checkpoint records into the stream Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 15:03 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 7:30 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-17 9:55 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-18 3:13 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-18 9:44 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 24/27] tools/libx{c, l}: [RFC] Introduce restore_callbacks.checkpoint() Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 2:23 ` Yang Hongyang
2015-06-17 8:20 ` Yang Hongyang
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 25/27] tools/libxl: [RFC] Handle checkpoint records in a libxl migration v2 stream Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 7:28 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 26/27] tools/libxc: Drop all XG_LIBXL_HVM_COMPAT code from libxc Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 15:03 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-15 13:44 ` [PATCH 27/27] tools/libxl: Drop all knowledge of toolstack callbacks Andrew Cooper
2015-06-16 15:04 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 15:06 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 10:14 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-17 10:43 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-17 10:53 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-16 2:21 ` [PATCH 00/27] Libxl migration v2 Yang Hongyang
2015-06-17 1:55 ` Wen Congyang
2015-06-17 9:45 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-02 7:33 ` Yang Hongyang
2015-07-02 9:26 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-02 9:33 ` Yang Hongyang
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