On 06/11/13 14:55, David Vrabel wrote: > The series adds support for the new hypercall ABI which should be > provided by Xen 4.4. Images are loaded into Xen directly with no > kernel involvement. > > Please do not apply until the hypervisor side patches are applied to > Xen. The hypervisor patches are now in Xen unstable and will be available in the upcoming Xen 4.4 release. Please apply this corresponding kexec-tools series. When making a new release with these patches in I would recommend adding a release note saying Xen 4.4 is now required to kexec under Xen. Thanks. David > Patch 1 makes libxc 4.4 mandatory for Xen support. > > Patch 2-3 remove uses of /proc/iomem in favour of libxc. > > Patch 4 adds the support for loading, unloading, and exec'ing an image > in Xen. > > This series explicitly drops support for older version of libxc/Xen as > supporting kexec on these hypervisors requires kernel support that > will never be available upstream. > > Changes in v7: > - extend extra segment to 0-1 MiB so the VGA memory is accesible by > the image. > > Changes in v6: > - Close libxc handle a few error paths. > > Changes in v5: > - Dropped the purgatory patch. > > Changes in v4: > - KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT => EM_386 > - add segment in the crash case for the backup src. > > Changes in v3 (not posted): > - Rebased > > Changes in v2: > - Patch from Don Sultz: use libxc for vmcoreinfo. > - Use xc_get_max_cpus() to get number of PCPUs. > - Enable unload and exec of images. > > David > >
