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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: update machine_to_phys_order on resume

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: update machine_to_phys_order on resume
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:26:28 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 13, Jan Beulich wrote:

> >>> Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> 07/13/11 11:12 AM >>>
> >It's not so much an objection to this patch but this issue seems to have
> >been caused by Xen cset 20892:d311d1efc25e which looks to me like a
> >subtle ABI breakage for guests. Perhaps we should introduce a feature
> >flag to indicate that a guest can cope with the m2p changing size over
> >migration like this?
> 
> Indeed - migration was completely beyond my consideration when
> submitting this. A feature flag seems the right way to go to me.

I will prepare a patch for a new feature flag.

Olaf

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