[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/11] xen: Initial kexec/kdump implementation

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 10:46 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:

> Given that /sbin/kexec creates a binary blob in memory, surely the most 
> simple thing is to get it to suitably mlock() the region and give a list 
> of VAs to the hypervisor.

More than likely. The DOMID_KEXEC thing was just a radon musing ;-)

> This way, Xen can properly take care of what it does with information 
> and where.  For example, at the moment, allowing dom0 to choose where 
> gets overwritten in the Xen crash area is a recipe for disaster if a 
> crash occurs midway through loading/reloading the crash kernel.

That's true. I think there is a double buffering scheme in the current
thing and we should preserve that in any new implementation.

Ian.