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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12 panic on Thinkpad W540 with UEFI mutiboot2, efi=no-rs workarounds it
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 14:24:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bddff3b2-a0cc-1a7e-8702-86bea33c9e16@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191009122109.GR8065@mail-itl>

On 09.10.2019 14:21, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki  wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 02:07:05PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 09.10.2019 13:52, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki  wrote:
>>> I'm talking about Xen->Xen transition here. How system table pointer is
>>> passed from old Xen to new Xen instance? And how the new Xen instance
>>> deals with boot services being not available anymore?
>>
>> It doesn't. I should better have said "* -> Xen transitions" in
>> my earlier reply. I simply can't see how this can all work with
>> EFI underneath without some extra conveying of data from the old
>> to the new instance.
> 
> Does it mean the whole discussion about SetVirtualAddressMap() being
> incompatible with kexec is moot, because runtime services (including
> SetVirtualAddressMap()) are not used by Xen after kexec anyway? If I
> understand correctly, you just said the Xen after kexec don't have
> runtime services pointer.

The concern is about kexec-ing to Linux (based on what I recall
from when I wrote this code; as said the situation may have
changed for modern Linux).

Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-09 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190807132657.GA2852@mail-itl>
2019-08-07 13:50 ` [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12 panic on Thinkpad W540 with UEFI mutiboot2, efi=no-rs workarounds it Andrew Cooper
2019-08-07 14:45 ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]   ` <20190807151703.GA2659@mail-itl>
2019-08-07 15:33     ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-07 15:51       ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-08-07 15:58         ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-07 16:04           ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-08-07 16:34             ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]               ` <20190807192557.GC3257@mail-itl>
2019-08-08  2:53                 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-08-08  6:03                   ` Jan Beulich
2019-10-08 11:50                     ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-10-08 13:08                       ` Jan Beulich
2019-10-08 13:52                         ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-10-08 14:19                           ` Jan Beulich
2019-10-08 16:29                             ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-10-09  0:40                               ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-10-09  8:56                               ` Jan Beulich
2019-10-09 10:31                                 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-10-09 10:50                                   ` Jan Beulich
2019-10-09 11:00                                     ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-10-09 11:48                                       ` Jan Beulich
2019-10-09 11:52                                         ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-10-09 12:07                                           ` Jan Beulich
2019-10-09 12:21                                             ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-10-09 12:24                                               ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2019-10-09 12:27                                                 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2019-10-09 13:31                                                   ` Jan Beulich
2019-10-09 23:57                                                     ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki

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