From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] hvm: add HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 14:19:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <538DCB4F.4050003@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401801340-6196-3-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com>
On 03/06/14 14:15, David Vrabel wrote:
> HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR is the guest physical address of the
> VM Generation ID. This parameter will be written by hvmloader and read
> by the toolstack when updating the gen. ID (e.g., after restoring from a
> snapshot).
>
> A HVM parameter is easier for the save/restore code to work with (than
> a XenStore key).
>
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
This needs rebasing as params 32 and 33 was taken by the ioreq-server
series.
> ---
> xen/include/public/hvm/params.h | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/xen/include/public/hvm/params.h b/xen/include/public/hvm/params.h
> index 517a184..4d7c692 100644
> --- a/xen/include/public/hvm/params.h
> +++ b/xen/include/public/hvm/params.h
> @@ -145,6 +145,9 @@
> /* SHUTDOWN_* action in case of a triple fault */
> #define HVM_PARAM_TRIPLE_FAULT_REASON 31
>
> -#define HVM_NR_PARAMS 32
> +/* Location of the VM Generation ID in guest physical address space. */
> +#define HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR 32
> +
> +#define HVM_NR_PARAMS 33
>
> #endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_HVM_PARAMS_H__ */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-03 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-03 13:15 [PATCHv3 0/6] tools: rework VM Generation ID David Vrabel
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] docs: update docs for the ~/platform/generation-id key David Vrabel
2014-06-10 10:25 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] hvm: add HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR David Vrabel
2014-06-03 13:19 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-06-10 10:27 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-10 10:40 ` Jan Beulich
2014-06-10 10:44 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-06-10 10:49 ` Jan Beulich
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] hvmloader: add helper functions to get/set HVM params David Vrabel
2014-06-03 19:43 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-06-10 10:39 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] libxc, libxl, hvmloader: strip out outdated VM generation ID implementation David Vrabel
2014-06-10 10:42 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] libxl: allow a generation ID to be specified at domain creation David Vrabel
2014-06-03 13:28 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-06-03 14:14 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-10 11:01 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-10 12:35 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-10 13:37 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-10 13:41 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-10 14:18 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-10 17:59 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-11 8:22 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-11 10:53 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-11 11:01 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-11 11:47 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-11 11:53 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] xl: generate a new random VM generation ID if requested David Vrabel
2014-06-10 11:02 ` Ian Campbell
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2014-05-27 17:31 [PATCHv2 0/6] tools: rework VM Generation ID David Vrabel
2014-05-27 17:31 ` [PATCH 2/6] hvm: add HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR David Vrabel
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