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Ross Lagerwall
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Add hook functions which run during patch apply and patch revert. Hook functions are used by livepatch payloads to manipulate data structures during patching, etc. One use case is the XSA91. As Martin mentions it: "If we have shadow variables, we also need an unload hook to garbage collect all the variables introduced by a hotpatch to prevent memory leaks. Potentially, we also want to pre-reserve memory for static or existing dynamic objects in the load-hook instead of on the fly. For testing and debugging, various applications are possible. In general, the hooks provide flexibility when having to deal with unforeseen cases, but their application should be rarely required (< 10%)." Furthermore include a test-case for it. Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
xen-bugtool =========== The xen-bugtool command line application will collate the Xen dmesg output, details of the hardware configuration of your machine, information about the build of Xen that you are using, plus, if you allow it, various logs. The information collated can either be posted to a Xen Bugzilla bug (this bug must already exist in the system, and you must be a registered user there), or it can be saved as a .tar.bz2 for sending or archiving. The collated logs may contain private information, and if you are at all worried about that, you should not use this tool, or you should explicitly exclude those logs from the archive. xen-bugtool is wholly interactive, so simply run it, and answer the questions.