On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 10:37 +0000, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:53:37AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > > >>> On 23.11.12 at 02:56, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The crash region (as specified by crashkernel= on the Xen command line) > > > is isolated from dom0. > > >[...] > > > > But all of this _could_ be done completely independent of the > > Dom0 kernel's kexec infrastructure (i.e. fully from user space, > > invoking the necessary hypercalls through the privcmd driver). > > No, this is impossible. kexec/kdump image lives in dom0 kernel memory > until execution. Are you sure? I could have sworn they lived in the hypervisor owned memory set aside by the crashkernel= parameter as Andy suggested. Ian. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
