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RE: [Xen-devel] Domain 0 stop response on frequently reboot VMS

Thanks, Daniel.
I think I can handle it myself.
 
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Domain 0 stop response on frequently reboot VMS
> From: daniel.stodden@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: tinnycloud@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:09:52 -0700
>
> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 04:16 -0400, MaoXiaoyun wrote:
> >
> > Well, where can I start if I want to maintain the current
> > kernel(2.6.31), and only update the blktap2?
> > As I go throught the git branch of
> > xen/dom0/backend/blktap2<http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/xen/dom0/backend/blktap2>, I found wait_queue.c is removed.
> > It looks like blktap2 has changed a lot, right?
> > So I am courious the difference between the new and the old one.
> > Could you share some brief explainations, that would be very
> > helpful.
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> For brief explanati ons but nothing particular I can only refer you to
> the commit messages. Because there have been plenty of them. :)
>
> They're all still backward compatible as far as the userspace ABI for
> older tapdisk2s goes. My recommendation would be replacing that whole
> blktap/ directory, because I can't support you with more than that.
>
> If you choose to do so: You might need some patches fixing request queue
> accesses, there might be slight differences to 2.6.32, that's a bit of a
> moving target sometimes. But it's not a big deal.
>
> Daniel
>
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