On 27/12/12 18:02, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andrew Cooper<andrew.cooper3 at citrix.com> writes: > >> On 27/12/2012 07:53, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>> The syscall ABI still has the wrong semantics. >>> >>> Aka totally unmaintainable and umergeable. >>> >>> The concept of domU support is also strange. What does domU support even mean, when the dom0 support is loading a kernel to pick up Xen when Xen falls over. >> There are two requirements pulling at this patch series, but I agree >> that we need to clarify them. > It probably make sense to split them apart a little even. > > Thinking about this split, there might be a way to simply it even more. /sbin/kexec can load the "Xen" crash kernel itself by issuing hypercalls using /dev/xen/privcmd. This would remove the need for the dom0 kernel to distinguish between loading a crash kernel for itself and loading a kernel for Xen. Or is this just a silly idea complicating the matter? ~Andrew
