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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] Enable domain checkpointing via xm save -

To: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] Enable domain checkpointing via xm save --checkpoint
From: Brendan Cully <brendan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:42:50 -0800
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On Tuesday, 27 February 2007 at 16:10, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Basically okay, but please create a new elfnote rather than adding a
> feature. The feature stuff has kind of got a bit confused, but is meant to
> indicate features provided by Xen to a particular guest. The feature maps in
> the guest header indicate which Xen features it requires and/or supports.
> This new flag has nothing to do with the hypervisor itself so I think it
> belongs in its own elfnote (XEN_ELFNOTE_SUSPEND_CANCEL?). This can either be
> a boolean (so no elfnote description bytes) or perhaps we should map it to a
> long with value 1 for now (so we can add further save/restore revisions
> later if we like).

Ok, I've resubmitted with this approach, making the note a long.

> Oh, also remember to add the elfnote to the x86/64 head-xen.S.

Done, thanks for the heads up.

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