Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 1/2] kexec/i386: kexec page table code clean up - add arch_kimage | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:29:36 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 17:15 +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > Have you tested Xen too? Does it run into issues with this change? > > Xen will need to be updated for this change but it shouldn't be a big > deal. Basically right now it calls __ma() (which is kind of like __pa()) > on kexec_pgd and friends. Updating the arguments to __ma() to use > the new arch_kimage pointers should be easy enough.
I think you mean the Xen specific parts of the kexec machinery in the kernel.c would need updating rather than the hypervisor, right?
I don't think these changes will cause anything more than minor problems for whoever ports the Xen kexec stuff upstream.
> N.B: As this is Dom0 code (not DomU) it is maintained in the xen > repository and has been merged into Linux.
I don't think we would bother backporting these changes to there, would we?
Ian.
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