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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: treatment grant frames during save/restore
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:22:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C8253BBE.161EE%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFF947A0200007800004715@vpn.id2.novell.com>

On 28/05/2010 09:01, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> Wouldn't is suffice to adjust XEN_DOMCTL_getpageframeinfo{2,3} to
> report these pages as special (not sure whether a new type would
> be needed, or whether simply returning XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_XTAB
> would be acceptable), thus allowing the tools to skip them as
> necessary? This of course implies that the tools would need to issue
> the call for HVM guests (currently I think they do so only for PV ones),
> that the actual page contents is irrelevant post-restore, and that
> there being a hole in the physical address space post-restore isn't
> a problem for the pv drivers.

Yep that would probably work. And also potentially gets rid of one lot of
"if-hvm-else-pv" branched code in xc_domain_save.c. I'd take a patch to do
that if you want to pick this item up.

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-28  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-27 15:27 treatment grant frames during save/restore Jan Beulich
2010-05-27 15:37 ` Jan Beulich
2010-05-27 15:50   ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-27 16:02 ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-28  8:01   ` Jan Beulich
2010-05-28  8:22     ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2010-05-31 14:58       ` Jan Beulich
2010-05-31 15:29         ` Keir Fraser

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