[PATCH 0/8] makedumpfile: Xen4 support for SLES11

Petr Tesarik ptesarik at suse.cz
Tue Jul 24 04:05:19 EDT 2012


Dne Út 24. července 2012 07:13:17 Atsushi Kumagai napsal(a):
> Hello Petr,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:32:44 +0200
> 
> ptesarik at suse.cz wrote:
> > This patchset was created to allow using makedumpfile for Dom0 dumps in
> > SLES SP1 and SP2. Most of the patches account for changes to the Xen
> > hypervisor, except the last one, which reflects that the "max_pfn"
> > symbol is not exporte by the SLES kernel.
> > 
> > Petr Tesarik
> > SUSE Linux
> 
> Thank you for your work.
> 
> Although I haven't seen almost your patchset yet, does your patchset have
> a functional overlap with the patchset Norbert sent ?
> 
>   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2012-June/006420.html
>   (This thread needs some experts in Xen)

Yes, I found that one only after I sent my patch set. I've contacted Norbert 
and asked him about his opinion.

> It seems that the two have the same purpose, but I can't decide which is
> better way. Do you have any opinion ?

OK, I'll have a look at Norbert's work and see if I can combine the two 
somehow.

Stay tuned,
Petr Tesarik



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