Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 03, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:

> Original description:
> 
> When a PVHVM linux guest performs kexec there are lots of things which
> require taking care of:
> - shared info, vcpu_info
> - grants
> - event channels
> - ...
> Instead of taking care of all these things we can rebuild the domain
> performing kexec from scratch doing so-called soft-reboot.
> 
> The idea was suggested by David Vrabel, Jan Beulich, and Konrad Rzeszutek 
> Wilk.
> 
> P.S. The patch series can be tested with PVHVM Linux guest with the following
> modifications:

Its not clear to me how thew old kernel starts the new kernel.
How and where is that done?

Olaf

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