From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] libxl: allow a generation ID to be specified at domain creation
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:59:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5397477B.80801@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402398065.1250.36.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com>
On 10/06/14 12:01, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 14:15 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> Should we consider calling the API field name something more specific,
> like "ms_vgid"? I'm thinking of the case where some other OS vendor
> reinvents the wheel. (I don't care about the internals, just the API).
generation_id matches the platform/generation-id xenstore key so I would
keep the libxl field name as-is.
> Do you not need to worry about endianess when memcpy'ing out of a uuid?
No. The conversion of uuid to the two 64-bit integers is arbitrary, it
need only be consistent. The integers in guest memory are in native
endianness.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-10 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ 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
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2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] libxc, libxl, hvmloader: strip out outdated VM generation ID implementation David Vrabel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 [this message]
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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