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* [PATCHv6 0/10] kexec: extend kexec hypercall for use with pv-ops kernels
@ 2013-06-24 17:42 David Vrabel
  2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86: give FIX_EFI_MPF its own fixmap entry David Vrabel
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From: David Vrabel @ 2013-06-24 17:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Daniel Kiper, Keir Fraser, David Vrabel

The series (for Xen 4.4) improves the kexec hypercall by making Xen
responsible for loading and relocating the image.  This allows kexec
to be usable by pv-ops kernels and should allow kexec to be usable
from a HVM or PVH privileged domain.

The first patch is a simple clean-up.

The second patch allows hypercall structures to be ABI compatible
between 32- and 64-bit guests (by reusing stuff present for domctls
and sysctls).  This seems better than having to keep adding compat
handling for new hypercalls etc.

Patch 3 introduces the new ABI.

Patch 4 and 5 nearly completely reimplement the kexec load, unload and
exec sub-ops.  The old load_v1 sub-op is then implemented on top of
the new code.

Patch 6 calls the kexec image when dom0 crashes.  This avoids having
to alter dom0 kernels to do a exec sub-op call on crash -- a
SHUTDOWN_crash by dom0 will trigger the kexec.

Patches 7 and 8 add the libxc API for the kexec calls.  These have
been acked-by Ian Campbell already.

Patch 9 adds a link time check for the size of the relocate code.

Patch 10 adds myself as the maintainer for kexec in Xen.

The required patch series for kexec-tools have previously been posted
and this series has been rebased on the latest kexec-tools and is
available from the xen-v3 branch of:

http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/dvrabel/kexec-tools.git;a=summary

Changes since v5:

- Fix double free in KEXEC_load_v1 failure path.
- Only copy the relocation code and not the whole page.
- Add myself as the kexec maintainer.

Changes since v4 (v5 was not posted to the list):

- _rsvd -> _pad in one of the public ABI structures.
- Fix bug where trailing pages were not zeroed. This fixes loading a
  64-bit Linux kernel using a more recent version of kexec-tools.
- Check the relocation code fits into a page at link time.

Changes since v3:

- Use paddr_t and page_to_maddr() etc. for portability.
- Add explicit padding to hypercall structures where required.
- Minor cleanup of the kexec_reloc assembly.
- Print a message before exec'ing a crash image.
- Style fixes (tabs, trailing whitespace) and typos.
- Fix a bug where using the V1 interface and unloading a image may crash.

Changes since v2: 

- Provide old struct xen_kexec_load if __XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION__ < 4.3
- Adjust new struct xen_kexec_load to avoid unnecessary padding.
- Use domheap pages for the image and control pages.
- Remove the DBG() macros from the reloc code.

David

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2013-06-24 17:42 [PATCHv6 0/10] kexec: extend kexec hypercall for use with pv-ops kernels David Vrabel
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86: give FIX_EFI_MPF its own fixmap entry David Vrabel
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 02/10] xen: make GUEST_HANDLE_64() and uint64_aligned_t available everywhere David Vrabel
2013-06-25  7:42   ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-25  9:42     ` David Vrabel
2013-06-25 11:36       ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-25 13:17         ` David Vrabel
2013-06-25 13:53           ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-25 14:48             ` David Vrabel
2013-06-25 15:02               ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 03/10] kexec: add public interface for improved load/unload sub-ops David Vrabel
2013-06-25  7:45   ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-27 17:29     ` David Vrabel
2013-06-28  6:53       ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 04/10] kexec: add infrastructure for handling kexec images David Vrabel
2013-06-25  7:54   ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-27 17:17     ` David Vrabel
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 05/10] kexec: extend hypercall with improved load/unload ops David Vrabel
2013-06-25  8:31   ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-25 14:30     ` David Vrabel
2013-06-25 14:59       ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-25 18:52   ` Daniel Kiper
2013-06-27 17:39     ` David Vrabel
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 06/10] xen: kexec crash image when dom0 crashes David Vrabel
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 07/10] libxc: add hypercall buffer arrays David Vrabel
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 08/10] libxc: add API for kexec hypercall David Vrabel
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 09/10] x86: check kexec relocation code fits in a page David Vrabel
2013-06-25  8:33   ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-25  9:31     ` Andrew Cooper
2013-06-25 11:38       ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-25 16:38         ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-25 19:00   ` Daniel Kiper
2013-06-26  9:50     ` David Vrabel
2013-06-24 17:42 ` [PATCH 10/10] MAINTAINERS: Add KEXEC maintainer David Vrabel
2013-06-24 20:31 ` [PATCHv6 0/10] kexec: extend kexec hypercall for use with pv-ops kernels Andrew Cooper
2013-06-25 19:27 ` Daniel Kiper
2013-06-26  9:44   ` David Vrabel
2013-06-26  9:52     ` Jan Beulich

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