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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen pv-on-hvm: add pfn_is_ram helper for kdump
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 04:22:34PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:00:05AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > Register pfn_is_ram helper speed up reading /proc/vmcore in the kdump
> > > kernel. See commit message of 997c136f518c ("fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook
> > > to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages") for details.
> >
> > What about the 'unregister_oldmem_pfn_is_ram' call? Should this
> > be implemented here as well?
>
> There is no need to unregister because PVonHVM is not going away during
> the lifetime of the guest.
>
> > > +#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
> >
> > Should this also have an #idef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE?
> > Or is it going to compile OK without CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE defined?
>
> All includes are supposed to work without ifdefs in the code, which is
> the case also for crash_dump.h

OK.
>
> > > + * previous kernel. If the pfn is ballooned, handle it properly.
> >
> > . and by handle it properly you mean return -ENXIO?
>
> Return code 0 means its a ballooned page and needs special care,
> non-null means it has to be handled as a RAM page.
>
> If the hypervisor is too old (4.1 and earlier) it just means that in
> case of kdump it will just cause high load in dom0.
> In case of kexec it will mean that the new kernel will crash because it
> can not know which pfn is actually there.
>
> > > + * Returns 0 if the pfn is not backed by a RAM page.
> > > + */
> > > +static int xen_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(unsigned long pfn)
> > > +{
> > > + struct xen_hvm_get_mem_type a;
> >
> > Can you make this have already initialized values, like:
> >
> > struct xen_hvm_get_mem_type a = {
> > .domid = DOMID_SELF;
> > .pfn = pfn
> > };
>
> Yes.
>
> > Also is this hypercall new? Or has it been in existence for some time?
>
> Its new in 4.2, and was backported to 4.1.1 as well.

Can you include the c/s in git commit pls?


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