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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH] Fix NVRAM data can notbesaved whe

To: "Zhang, Xing Z" <xing.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>, "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH] Fix NVRAM data can notbesaved when guest execute "reboot" instruction
From: "Zhang, Xing Z" <xing.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:07:12 +0800
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>>definitely the obvious candidate, but we could also make it an
>>architecture dependent static inline in something like vl.h, where the
>>overloading occurs now.  The overloading is a nice trick, but a
context
>>dependent function like that seems prone to errors to me.  Thanks,
>[Wing] You may misunderstand my means. Yes, we can implement a hook in
vl.h as
>an inline function. But the hook must call the function
xc_ia64_save_to_nvram()
>which implemented in xc_ia64_hvm_build.c. And the hook is called by
>xc_domain_shutdown() which in xc_domain.c. So xc_domain_shutdown()
belongs to
>libxenctrl.so while xc_ia64_save_tonvram() belongs to libxenguest.so.
>
>A way is move all NVRAM related functions to libxenctrl.so
[Wing] I am sorry, it's my misunderstanding. I will redo the patch and
send out it later.

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