Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] tools/libs: add missing support of linear p2m_list, cleanup

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 25.05.21 09:32, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 12.05.21 08:58, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > Ping?
> Now each patch has an Ack by Wei. Could the series be either applied or
> get more comments, please?
And another PING.

Do I need to setup a cron job pinging each day to get a reaction?


Juergen

> Juergen
>
> > On 12.04.21 17:22, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > > There are some corners left which don't support the not so very new
> > > linear p2m list of pv guests, which has been introduced in Linux kernel
> > > 3.19 and which is mandatory for non-legacy versions of Xen since kernel
> > > 4.14.
> > >
> > > This series adds support for the linear p2m list where it is missing
> > > (colo support and "xl dump-core").
> > >
> > > In theory it should be possible to merge the p2m list mapping code
> > > from migration handling and core dump handling, but this needs quite
> > > some cleanup before this is possible.
> > >
> > > The first three patches of this series are fixing real problems, so
> > > I've put them at the start of this series, especially in order to make
> > > backports easier.
> > >
> > > The other three patches are only the first steps of cleanup. The main
> > > work done here is to concentrate all p2m mapping in libxenguest instead
> > > of having one implementation in each of libxenguest and libxenctrl.
> > >
> > > Merging the two implementations should be rather easy, but this will
> > > require to touch many lines of code, as the migration handling variant
> > > seems to be more mature, but it is using the migration stream specific
> > > structures heavily. So I'd like to have some confirmation that my way
> > > to clean this up is the right one.
> > >
> > > My idea would be to add the data needed for p2m mapping to struct
> > > domain_info_context and replace the related fields in struct
> > > xc_sr_context with a struct domain_info_context. Modifying the
> > > interface of xc_core_arch_map_p2m() to take most current parameters
> > > via struct domain_info_context would then enable migration coding to
> > > use xc_core_arch_map_p2m() for mapping the p2m. xc_core_arch_map_p2m()
> > > should look basically like the current migration p2m mapping code
> > > afterwards.
> > >
> > > Any comments to that plan?
> > >
> > > Changes in V2:
> > > - added missing #include in ocaml stub
> > >
> > > Juergen Gross (6):
> > >    tools/libs/guest: fix max_pfn setting in map_p2m()
> > >    tools/libs/ctrl: fix xc_core_arch_map_p2m() to support linear p2m
> > >      table
> > >    tools/libs/ctrl: use common p2m mapping code in 
> > > xc_domain_resume_any()
> > >    tools/libs: move xc_resume.c to libxenguest
> > >    tools/libs: move xc_core* from libxenctrl to libxenguest
> > >    tools/libs/guest: make some definitions private to libxenguest
> > >
> > >   tools/include/xenctrl.h                       |  63 ---
> > >   tools/include/xenguest.h                      |  63 +++
> > >   tools/libs/ctrl/Makefile                      |   4 -
> > >   tools/libs/ctrl/xc_core_x86.c                 | 223 ----------
> > >   tools/libs/ctrl/xc_domain.c                   |   2 -
> > >   tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.h                  | 
> 43 +-
> > >   tools/libs/guest/Makefile                     |   4 +
> > >   .../libs/{ctrl/xc_core.c => guest/xg_core.c}  |   7 +-
> > >   .../libs/{ctrl/xc_core.h => guest/xg_core.h}  |  15 
> +-
> > >   .../xc_core_arm.c => guest/xg_core_arm.c}     |  31 +-
> > >   .../xc_core_arm.h => guest/xg_core_arm.h}     |   0
> > >   tools/libs/guest/xg_core_x86.c                | 399 ++++++++++++++++++
> > >   .../xc_core_x86.h => guest/xg_core_x86.h}     |   0
> > >   tools/libs/guest/xg_dom_boot.c                |   2 
> +-
> > >   tools/libs/guest/xg_domain.c                  | 
> 19 +-
> > >   tools/libs/guest/xg_offline_page.c            |   2 +-
> > >   tools/libs/guest/xg_private.h                 |  16 +-
> > >   .../{ctrl/xc_resume.c => guest/xg_resume.c}   | 
> 69 +--
> > >   tools/libs/guest/xg_sr_save_x86_pv.c          |   2 +-
> > >   tools/ocaml/libs/xc/xenctrl_stubs.c           |   1 +
> > >   20 files changed, 545 insertions(+), 420 deletions(-)
> > >   delete mode 100644 tools/libs/ctrl/xc_core_x86.c
> > >   rename tools/libs/{ctrl/xc_core.c => guest/xg_core.c} (99%)
> > >   rename tools/libs/{ctrl/xc_core.h => guest/xg_core.h} (92%)
> > >   rename tools/libs/{ctrl/xc_core_arm.c => guest/xg_core_arm.c} 
> (72%)
> > >   rename tools/libs/{ctrl/xc_core_arm.h => guest/xg_core_arm.h} 
> (100%)
> > >   create mode 100644 tools/libs/guest/xg_core_x86.c
> > >   rename tools/libs/{ctrl/xc_core_x86.h => guest/xg_core_x86.h} 
> (100%)
> > >   rename tools/libs/{ctrl/xc_resume.c => guest/xg_resume.c} (80%)

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