[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 0/4] linux-xen: Extend xen kexec hypercall to return additional regions
Hi Simon, These look ok to me. Ack. Thanks, Alex On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 16:10 +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > this series makes use of the extra regions that can be > retrieved using the kexec hypercall, as per patches posted > in a separate series. > > This allows all regions that kexec needs to avoid to be retrieved > from the hypervisor. The patch set also places all of these > regions into /proc/iomem_machine - previously some where in > /proc/iomem_machine and some where in /proc/iomem. > > There are generic and ia64 specific patches in this series. > I wanted to post them together as they don't make much sense > without each other. > > As well as the related xen patches, there are also related kexec-tools > patches which I have posted to the kexec mailing list and intend to merge. > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2008-February/001348.html > > > The end-game here is to make sure that all the reserved regions > show up in /proc/iomem_machine on ia64. This currently does not happen. > And manifests as kexec only being able to be performed once as > the boot parameter ends up being overwritten in relocate_kernel before > purgatory is reached. > > Xen--kexec-->Xen--kexec [hang in purgatory!] > > > The EFI-RID patches for ia64 xen kexec are also needed for kexec to > function on ia64. However they touch different code paths and can be merged > separately. > -- Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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