linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/pvh: correctly setup the PV EFI interface for dom0

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Message-ID: <20190425100259.f2k7ayzlxctucitg@Air-de-Roger>
Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:02:59 +0200
From:   Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
To:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, <x86@...nel.org>,
        <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/pvh: correctly setup the PV EFI interface for
 dom0

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:45:43AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 4/24/19 11:45 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:36:41AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >> On 4/23/19 9:04 AM, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> >>> This involves initializing the boot params EFI related fields and the
> >>> efi global variable.
> >>>
> >>> Without this fix a PVH dom0 doesn't detect when booted from EFI, and
> >>> thus doesn't support accessing any of the EFI related data.
> >>>
> >>> Reported-by: PGNet Dev <pgnet.dev@...il.com>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
> >> Hmm.. This seems to be breaking save/restore for me (for domU), and I
> >> can't see any obvious reasons.
> >>
> >> Can you try it?
> > Sure, thanks for the extra testing! I have to admit I haven't tested
> > save/restore with this patch applied, it didn't come to mind it might
> > affect that functionality.
> >
> > I assume it's save/restore of a PVH domU that's broken (HVM and PV are
> > fine)?
> >
> 
> 
> PV is fine, I haven't tried HVM.

I've tested live migration and save/restore of this series on top of
5.1.0-rc5 and seems to work fine for me. On top of which Linux version
where you testing, and can you paste the guest config file?

Thanks, Roger.