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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/pvh: correctly setup the PV EFI interface for dom0
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On 4/25/19 6:02 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:45:43AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 4/24/19 11:45 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:36:41AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>> On 4/23/19 9:04 AM, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>>>>> This involves initializing the boot params EFI related fields and the
>>>>> efi global variable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Without this fix a PVH dom0 doesn't detect when booted from EFI, and
>>>>> thus doesn't support accessing any of the EFI related data.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reported-by: PGNet Dev <pgnet.dev@gmail.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
>>>> Hmm.. This seems to be breaking save/restore for me (for domU), and I
>>>> can't see any obvious reasons.
>>>>
>>>> Can you try it?
>>> Sure, thanks for the extra testing! I have to admit I haven't tested
>>> save/restore with this patch applied, it didn't come to mind it might
>>> affect that functionality.
>>>
>>> I assume it's save/restore of a PVH domU that's broken (HVM and PV are
>>> fine)?
>>>
>>
>> PV is fine, I haven't tried HVM.
> I've tested live migration and save/restore of this series on top of
> 5.1.0-rc5 and seems to work fine for me. On top of which Linux version
> where you testing, and can you paste the guest config file?
>

It's not your change.

I was booting with threadirqs boot option and hvc console apparently
doesn't like that. It's not 100% reproducible, but I was able to fail
save/restore without your patches as well.

I may look at this sometime next week, but in the meantime for both patches

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

and I will add 4.19+ for stable.

-boris

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