[XenPPC] xm save/restore tests

[geyi <kudva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jimi,

We made several tests on the save/restore with different guest domain 
configuration.  Here is the problems we meet in the tests:
1. Cannot get the pfn list on large domain (domain memory >= 1GB). The 
xc_get_pfn_list will fail for large domain, because the xemcomm_create 
only allocate 1 page for the address mapping table between two domains. 
That restricts the pfn_list size transferred in one hcall to less than 
2MB. And in current implementation, we can't transfer the pfn_list by 
two hcalls.  So to support the large domain save/restore, either the 
getmemlist hcall should be modified to support partially pfn_list 
transfer or the xencomm allocate more pages for the address mapping in 
an hcall. What's you advice?
This is the kernel message we got from domain 0:
        xencomm_init: could only translate 2093048 of 2129920 bytes
        xencomm_init failure: -28

2.  We tried to restore a domain with disk root file system. I used 
Hao's disk image file for the testing. The restored domain will trap 
into Data Access Exception(300). We found that's because the global 
pointer "shared" was not NULL before gnttab_resume is called in kernel 
resuming. The domain can be restored successfully when we clear the 
value of shared  to NULL in gnttab_suspend.

--
Yi Ge <kudva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r b03ebb287fa9 drivers/xen/core/gnttab.c
--- a/drivers/xen/core/gnttab.c Fri Nov 03 17:58:22 2006 -0500
+++ b/drivers/xen/core/gnttab.c Thu Nov 09 15:40:35 2006 -0500
@@ -426,7 +426,9 @@ int gnttab_suspend(void)
 int gnttab_suspend(void)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_XEN
-       return arch_gnttab_suspend(shared);
+       int ret =  arch_gnttab_suspend(shared);
+       shared = NULL;
+       return ret;
 #else
 #if !defined(__ia64__)
        apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, (unsigned long)shared,

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