Hi, this patch reserves a hypercall number for kexec, to ensure that it isn''t a moving target. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:11:12PM +0900, Horms wrote:> Hi, > > this patch reserves a hypercall number for kexec, > to ensure that it isn''t a moving target.I notice that since I sent this patch two new hypercall numbers have been added, __HYPERVISOR_sysctl and __HYPERVISOR_domctl, but this patch remains neither merged nor nacked. Is reserving a hypercall number for kexec acceptable?> kexec: Reserve hypercall number > > This is a micro-excerpt from the kexec patches that > are being worked on. It just reserves hypercall number 35 > ensure that is isn''t a moving target. > > Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> > Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> > > --- 0001/xen/include/public/xen.h > +++ work/xen/include/public/xen.h 2006-08-21 13:06:15.000000000 +0900 > @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ > #define __HYPERVISOR_event_channel_op 32 > #define __HYPERVISOR_physdev_op 33 > #define __HYPERVISOR_hvm_op 34 > +#define __HYPERVISOR_kexec_op 35 > > /* Architecture-specific hypercall definitions. */ > #define __HYPERVISOR_arch_0 48_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Keir Fraser
2006-Aug-30 17:04 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] kexec: Reserve hypercall number
On 30/8/06 6:33 am, "Horms" <horms@verge.net.au> wrote:>> this patch reserves a hypercall number for kexec, >> to ensure that it isn''t a moving target. > > I notice that since I sent this patch two new hypercall numbers > have been added, __HYPERVISOR_sysctl and __HYPERVISOR_domctl, > but this patch remains neither merged nor nacked. > > Is reserving a hypercall number for kexec acceptable?Yes, I''ve now done so. -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:04:30PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:> > > > On 30/8/06 6:33 am, "Horms" <horms@verge.net.au> wrote: > > >> this patch reserves a hypercall number for kexec, > >> to ensure that it isn''t a moving target. > > > > I notice that since I sent this patch two new hypercall numbers > > have been added, __HYPERVISOR_sysctl and __HYPERVISOR_domctl, > > but this patch remains neither merged nor nacked. > > > > Is reserving a hypercall number for kexec acceptable? > > Yes, I''ve now done so.Awsome, thanks. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel