Re: [PATCH linux 0/8] xen: pvhvm: support bootup on secondary vCPUs

From: David Vrabel
Date: Tue Jun 28 2016 - 13:33:07 EST


On 28/06/16 17:47, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> It may happen that Xen's and Linux's ideas of vCPU id diverge. In
> particular, when we crash on a secondary vCPU we may want to do kdump
> and unlike plain kexec where we do migrate_to_reboot_cpu() we try booting
> on the vCPU which crashed. This doesn't work very well for PVHVM guests as
> we have a number of hypercalls where we pass vCPU id as a parameter. These
> hypercalls either fail or do something unexpected. To solve the issue we
> need to have a mapping between Linux's and Xen's vCPU ids.

Could the soft-reboot hypercall (optionally) return on vcpu 0?

David