Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]: kexec: framework and i386

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This is good work!
> It is very necessary for debugging hypervisor or domain0.

Agreed.

> Mark, what do you think about this kdump implementation?

I think kdump, in general, is a nifty solution for supporting crashdumps, 
since using a separate kernel for crashdumps gives you the best possible 
opportunity to complete them successfully.

Integrating with the Linux crashdump infrastructure seems like a good idea.  
It doesn't stop other dom0 OSes using their own crashdump infrastructure, but 
with kdump we have a chance of getting a dump even if Xen itself crashes 
(whilst admittedly rare, such crashes are something you'd want to get 
debugged quickly!)

So, essentially, I think the idea is good - I'll try and take a look through 
the code.

Cheers,
Mark

> Best Regards,
>
> Akio Takebe
>
> >On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:12:30PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> >> kexec: framework and i386
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >>   * This patch was prepared against xen-unstable.hg 9514
> >>     As of today (9574) two new hypercalls have been added.
> >>     I rediffed and moved the kexec hypercall to 33. However
> >>     this exceedes hypercall_NR, which is currently 32.
> >>     I tried increasing this, but the dom0 now crashes
> >>     in entry.S on init. Even after rebuilding both xen and the kernel
> >>     completely from scratch after a make distclean. Help!!
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am a bit concerned that this patch is going to start rotting if I
> >can't at least track the current xen-unstable.hg, or better still get it
> >merged.
> >
> >I would really appreciate it if someone could take moments to comment on
> >the hypercall problem. Is adding a new hypercall, as the current patch
> >does, the best way? If so could someone point me to how to increase the
> >hypercall table size. If not, is it best to piggyback of the dom0_op
> >hypercall? Or is there some other prefered option?
> >
> >--
> >Horms
> >
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