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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] dump-core take 2:

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] dump-core take 2:
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:02:18 +0000
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On 18/1/07 13:26, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Do you have any usage in mind?
> 
> Case like your above requirement, case like qemu, and even case
> like save/restore... anyway, to me there's no need to let Xen aware
> of the domain memmap. Domain image builder constructs the memmap
> based on its configuration, and then just notify xen to allocate pages for
> appropriate regions or setup mapping for assigned MMIO ranges. If
> builder also saves memmap to xenstore, you don't need above
> hypercall then. Just an alternative...

This is a better alternative *if* it is actually necessary, which I have not
been convinced of.

 -- Keir


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