[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 0/4] linux-xen: Extend xen kexec hypercall to return additional regions

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

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.


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