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Re: [Xen-devel] how to read value from xenstore inside kernel

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] how to read value from xenstore inside kernel
From: Kuriakose Mathew <kmathew123@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:14:46 +0530
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Thanks James.
I will try to get the crash message but not how to get it in a file. When I restart the system after making the change, it gets rebooted at this point. So I have to find a way to get those message displayed while a system is booting. I ll try to get it.

Also regarding 'watch' , it is called when the value of key changes but if I want to read some value which is static then will this help?
Not sure if I am right.

-Mathew


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:37 PM, James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I have been trying to use to xenbus_read.
>
> I added the below code in netback.c , static void
net_tx_action(unsigned long
> unused) function.
>
> char * test;
> const char *nodename = "console";
> test = xenbus_read(XBT_NIL, nodename, "limit", NULL);
>
> It is compiling fine. But when the kernel is crashing at this point
during
> runtime.
> I expect to read the /local/domain/0/console/limit , which I am able
to read
> from shell using
> xenstore-read . Am I missing something ?

Not sure how much this helps, but you should not be re-reading from
xenbus every time a packet is sent. That would involve huge per-packet
overheads. You can read it initially and then set a 'watch' on the value
to get notified every time it changes.

Have you got a copy of the crash message?

James


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