Re: [Xen-devel] code read problems

["Mike Sun" <msun@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've had to trace through the migration code and made the following
notes.  Hope it helps:

http://msun.bluespot.org/wiki/doku.php?id=xen_migration_notes

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:37 AM, tgh <wwwwww4187@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi
>   thank you for your reply
>   and i read the code of xc_save.c and xc_restore.c, which maybe do the
>  function of VMsaving and VMrestoring, but i wander, if the code of
>  xc_save.c and xc_restore.c is called by some python code or c code
>  during migration or xm save and xm restore or not? the code of xc_save.c
>  is a main function ,and is it called by other program to do migration or
>  not ?
>
>   and in the code of xc_save.c, there seem no notification to the
>  xenstore or devbackend, and how are these VMdevbackends destroyed in the
>  dom0, when migration or save?
>   and in the code of xc_restore.c,there seems to be an existing
>  VMdomain,and the whole data from savefile or from  migration,will load
>  into the VMdomain, is it？  then ,what code call these code of xc_save
>  and xc_restore?  i am confused
>
>  could you help me out
>
>  Thanks in advance
>
>
>  Daniel Stodden 写道:
>
>
> > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 19:22 +0800, tgh wrote:
>  >
>  >> could you reply in english, i could not read your letter
>  >>
>  >
>  > Don't bother. Just an autoreply generated to tell you the guy is on
>  > vacation.
>  >
>  > Regarding your problem: There is not much you can do to get some sort
>  > execution traces enabled automatically. You probably want to enable
>  > debugging when building Xen and the libraries. Then maybe add a couple
>  > of debug-print statements to the code, whereever you see fit.
>  >
>  > I believe migration support in xend and libxc should be understandable
>  > in isolation. The tricky parts are definitely done in C. Last time I
>  > checked, xend mainly performed a single call to the tools and library.
>  >
>  > Also note that random instrumentation of all code executed for
>  > translating and mapping of the domU address space within the hypervisor
>  > would probably soon get more verbose than you asked for, since some of
>  > the functions involved can be called at a comparatively high frequency.
>  >
>  > Rule 1 when digging your way through complex systems: Divide and
>  > Conquer. Division comes first. Understand one thing at a time, starting
>  > at a comparatively high-level, then selectively dig deeper.
>  >
>  > regards,
>  > daniel
>  >
>  >
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