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Message-Id: <4E201743020000780004D8B8@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:32:35 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com> To: "Olaf Hering" <olaf@...fle.de> Cc: <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>, <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <keir@....org> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: update machine_to_phys_order on resume >>> On 14.07.11 at 12:26, Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> >>> Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com> 07/13/11 11:12 AM >>> >> >It's not so much an objection to this patch but this issue seems to have >> >been caused by Xen cset 20892:d311d1efc25e which looks to me like a >> >subtle ABI breakage for guests. Perhaps we should introduce a feature >> >flag to indicate that a guest can cope with the m2p changing size over >> >migration like this? >> >> Indeed - migration was completely beyond my consideration when >> submitting this. A feature flag seems the right way to go to me. > > I will prepare a patch for a new feature flag. Let me fold this into the feature handling change patch I'm close to submit - without those changes I don't think a guest kernel would have a way to actually announce its capability. Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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