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...ue to lack of knowledge of that change) to boot the no longer privileged kernel in Dom0 resulted in apparently silent failure. To make the mismatch explicit and visible, add dom0 feature flag that the kernel can set to indicate operation as dom0 is supported. Due to the way elf_xen_parse_features() worked up to now (getting fixed here), adding features indications to the old, string based ELF note would make the respective kernel unusable on older hypervisors. For that reason, a new ELF Note is being introduced that allows specifying supported features as a bit array instead...

This patch series is a reworking of a series developed by Mukesh Rathor at Oracle. The entirety of the design and development was done by him; I have only reworked, reorganized, and simplified things in a way that I think makes more sense. The vast majority of the credit for this effort therefore goes to him. This version is labelled v13 because it is based on his most recent series, v11.