Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 03/13] libxl: provide a function to retrieve the xenstore domain id

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 11:44 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > > IMO the generic concept you are asking for should be added in a
> > > separate patch handling stopping (and possibly rebooting) driver
> > > domains in a clean way.
> > 
> > Since libxl has a stable API once we add something we need to continue
> > supporting it, so we cannot (easily/cleanly) switch an xs specific
> > scheme
> > into a generic one later. That argues then for supporting the XS case
> > via
> > the generic mechanism now, even if we don't implement the other cases.
> 
> I can't see a scenario where the xenstore domain would have to be
> stopped by dom0. Once you do it you'll never be able to connect to
> it again without changing the xenbus driver interface, too. It is
> the same reason why xenstored can't be restarted.
> 
> Driver domains are different and I think the interface to query a
> domain whether it is a driver domain or whether it might survive a
> dom0 reboot should be based on xenstore.
> 
> So a xenstore domain would always need special handling.

If there is really _never_ any reason to stop the xs domain then I think at
the libxl API level a class of "never stop" domains would be better than
special casing the xs, even if it turns out the only member of the set is
xs at least we've given ourselves wriggle room if something else comes up
in the future.

Ian.

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