On 02/21/13 12:48, David Vrabel wrote: > The series improves the kexec hypercall by making Xen responsible for > loading and relocating the image. This allows kexec to be usable by > pv-ops kernels and should allow kexec to be usable from a HVM or PVH > privileged domain. > > The first patch is a simple clean-up. > > The second patch allows hypercall structures to be ABI compatible > between 32- and 64-bit guests (by reusing stuff present for domctls > and sysctls). This seems better than having to keep adding compat > handling for new hypercalls etc. > > Patch 3 introduces the new ABI. > > Patch 4 and 5 nearly completely reimplement the kexec load, unload and > exec sub-ops. The old load_v1 sub-op is then implemented on top of > the new code. > > Patch 6 calls the kexec image when dom0 crashes. This avoids having > to alter dom0 kernels to do a exec sub-op call on crash -- an existing > SHUTDOWN_crash. > > Patches 7 and 8 add the libxc API for the kexec calls. > > The required patch series for kexec-tools will be posted shortly. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel at lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel I have tested this patch set on a Fedora 17 dom0 with kernels: 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 3.6.5-1.fc17.x86_64 So: Tested-by: Don Slutz <Don at CloudSwitch.com> -Don Slutz
