Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.6 7/8] libxl/save&restore&convert: Switch to new EMULATOR_XENSTORE_DATA records

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:44:42PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Read and write "toolstack" information using the new
> EMULATOR_XENSTORE_DATA record, and have the conversion script take care
> of the old format.
> 
> The entire libxc and libxl migration v2 streams are now bitness-neutral
> in their records.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> CC: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Note: This is a binary incompatibility in the libxl migration stream over
> the past few weeks, but we don't really care about maintaining
> compatibility between development versions of Xen, and it does fix the
> one remaining bitness issue in the stream.

Makes sense. Making the stream bitness-neutral is definitely something
we want to do before releasing migration v2.

And the code looks good to me.

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

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