Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] mini-os: xenbus changes for rump kernels

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> I have been working on a facility for the NetBSD-based rump kernels to
> allow programs to make xenstore queries using libxenstore.  IMO the
> best way to do this is to provide a working /dev/xen/xenbus.  I have
> achieved this, and will be submitting the results to the rump kernel
> project.
>
> However, mini-os's xenbus driver was not suited to properly
> multiplexing and ordering requests from multiple callers, and some of
> the mini-os headers were a bit hostile towards the NetBSD kernel
> environment the see when they are #included from a rump kernel device
> driver component.  So I had to make some changes to minios.
>
> The rump kernel project has its own fork of minios (although the
> divergence is reasonably limited).  So my changes to minios are
> actually changes to rumpuser-xen's fork of minios.
>
> But before I ask the rump kernel developers to pull my nontrivial
> changes, I felt I should give the Xen community a chance to object.
> Hence this RFC series.
>
> The code including my complete working branch of rumpuser-xen is also
> available here:
>     git://xenbits.xen.org/people/iwj/rumpuser-xen.git
> in the commits
>     base.dev-xen-xenbus.v1..dev-xen-xenbus.v1
> or via gitweb:
>     http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/iwj/rumpuser-xen.git;a=log;h=refs/tags/dev-xen-xenbus.v1
>
> The changes I would like Xen community review for are these:

CC'ing the minios maintainer.

 -G

>
>   01/11 mini-os: Make some headers more rumpkernel-friendly
>   02/11 mini-os: Provide <mini-os/queue.h>
>   03/11 mini-os/xenbus: Add missing locks to xb_write
>   04/11 mini-os/xenbus: Change type of xenbus_event_queue
>   05/11 mini-os/xenbus: Use MINIOS_LIST for the list of watches
>   06/11 mini-os/xenbus: Rename xenbus_events to xenbus_default_watch_queue
>   07/11 mini-os/xenbus: Unify watch and reply queues
>   08/11 mini-os/xenbus: Expose lower-level interface
>   09/11 mini-os/xenbus: Sort out request and watch locking
>   10/11 mini-os/xenbus: Provide queue->wakeup hook
>   11/11 mini-os/xenbus: Provide xenbus_free
>
> Thanks,
> Ian.
>
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