Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv7 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.4

[Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/09/13 14:21, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:55:18PM +0000, 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.
> >
> > 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.
> For whole Xen kexec/kdump kexec-tools series:
>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Daniel
Also

Tested-by: Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx>

   -Don Slutz


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