From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/5] docs: add feature document for Xen hypervisor sysfs-like support
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:29:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa13061d-2cb2-ef79-de19-f304a1ee12ca@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a2380f3-d318-1086-74ba-8f133db440b4@suse.com>
On 11.09.19 11:28, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 11.09.2019 08:19, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> +# Overview
>> +
>> +The Hypervisor FS is a hierarchical name-value store for reporting
>> +information to guests, especially dom0. It is similar to the Linux
>> +kernel's sysfs, but without the functionality to directly alter
>> +entries values. Entries and directories are created by the hypervisor,
>> +while the toolstack is able to use a hypercall to query the entry
>> +values.
>> +
>> +# User details
>> +
>> +With:
>> +
>> + xenfs --ls <path>
>> +
>> +the user can list the entries of a specific path of the FS. Using:
>> +
>> + xenfs --cat <path>
>> +
>> +the content of an entry can be retrieved.
>
> Just one initial remark: I think the -- prefix to the commands
> should be omitted; they should be used for option-like arguments
> only.
Fine with me.
Juergen
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-11 6:19 [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 6:19 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/5] docs: add feature document for Xen " Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 9:28 ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 9:29 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2019-09-11 6:19 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/5] xen: add basic hypervisor filesystem support Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 6:19 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/5] libs: add libxenfs Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 6:20 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/5] tools: add xenfs tool Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 9:30 ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 9:57 ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 10:07 ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 11:34 ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 11:50 ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 12:41 ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 6:20 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/5] xen: add /buildinfo/config entry to hypervisor filesystem Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 9:24 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 10:02 ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 11:17 ` Andrew Cooper
2019-09-11 11:29 ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 11:54 ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 13:01 ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 15:01 ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 15:06 ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 15:20 ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 15:26 ` Juergen Gross
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