Re: [Xen-devel] Livepatch for Xen 4.9

2016-10-24 Thread Ross Lagerwall
On 10/03/2016 03:16 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: Hey! [CC-ing xen-devel] Xen 4.8-rc1 is out and means taking a break from some of the Livepatch hypervisor parts for me. Thanks for all the work you put in! My plan for 4.8 is to concentrate on any livepatch fallout and doing OSSTest al

Re: [Xen-devel] Livepatch for Xen 4.9

2016-10-03 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 03/10/16 15:16, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > Hey! > > [CC-ing xen-devel] > > Xen 4.8-rc1 is out and means taking a break from some of the Livepatch > hypervisor > parts for me. > > My plan for 4.8 is to concentrate on any livepatch fallout and doing OSSTest > along > with Marcos (CC-ed) and

Re: [Xen-devel] Livepatch for Xen 4.9

2016-10-03 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 10/03/16 4:18 PM >>> >2) We could also do some form of restartable patching. That is seed the code >(where we are going to >put a trampoline) with 'CC'. Then do memcpy over the the 'CC' the new >instructions (jump). If the >NMI/MCE handler hits that code it would call t

[Xen-devel] Livepatch for Xen 4.9

2016-10-03 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Hey! [CC-ing xen-devel] Xen 4.8-rc1 is out and means taking a break from some of the Livepatch hypervisor parts for me. My plan for 4.8 is to concentrate on any livepatch fallout and doing OSSTest along with Marcos (CC-ed) and see if we can wrestle it to expand on what we want to have done. H