On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 01:29:36PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 17:15 +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > > Have you tested Xen too? Does it run into issues with this change? > > > > Xen will need to be updated for this change but it shouldn't be a big > > deal. Basically right now it calls __ma() (which is kind of like __pa()) > > on kexec_pgd and friends. Updating the arguments to __ma() to use > > the new arch_kimage pointers should be easy enough. > > I think you mean the Xen specific parts of the kexec machinery in the > kernel.c would need updating rather than the hypervisor, right?
Yes, that is right. Sorry for the confusion. > I don't think these changes will cause anything more than minor problems > for whoever ports the Xen kexec stuff upstream. > > > N.B: As this is Dom0 code (not DomU) it is maintained in the xen > > repository and has been merged into Linux. > > I don't think we would bother backporting these changes to there, would > we? No, I was more thinking of the situation where Xen moves its kernel forwards. -- Horms -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
