Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH linux v3 0/9] xen: pvhvm: support bootup on secondary vCPUs

[Vitaly Kuznetsov]

Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > On 26/07/16 13:30, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> >> It may happen that Xen's and Linux's ideas of vCPU id diverge. In
>> >> particular, when we crash on a secondary vCPU we may want to do kdump
>> >> and unlike plain kexec where we do migrate_to_reboot_cpu() we try booting
>> >> on the vCPU which crashed. This doesn't work very well for PVHVM guests as
>> >> we have a number of hypercalls where we pass vCPU id as a parameter. These
>> >> hypercalls either fail or do something unexpected. To solve the issue we
>> >> need to have a mapping between Linux's and Xen's vCPU ids.
>> >> 
>> >> This series solves the issue for x86 PVHVM guests. PV guests don't (and
>> >> probably won't) support kdump so I always assume Xen's vCPU id == Linux's
>> >> vCPU id. ARM guests will probably need to get proper mapping once we start
>> >> supporting kexec/kdump there.
>> >> 
>> >> Changes since v2:
>> >> - Use 'uint32_t' for xen_vcpu_id mapping [Julien Grall]
>> >> - Rebased to linux-4.7
>> >
>> > I already applied v2.  If you provide an incremental patch I can queue
>> > it for 4.9.
>> 
>> Ok,
>> 
>> in that case we can wait till the real mapping is done for ARM to change
>> the type of xen_vcpu_id I guess.
>
> It would still be nice to make the change. Please send it as an
> incremental patch. It is OK if it is queued for 4.9.

Sure, will do.

-- 
  Vitaly