Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2021 17:10:25 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] kexec: Allow architecture code to opt-out at runtime |
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 05:55:52PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: > From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> > > Allow a runtime opt-out of kexec support for architecture code in case > the kernel is running in an environment where kexec is not properly > supported yet. > > This will be used on x86 when the kernel is running as an SEV-ES > guest. SEV-ES guests need special handling for kexec to hand over all > CPUs to the new kernel. This requires special hypervisor support and > handling code in the guest which is not yet implemented. > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+ > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> > --- > include/linux/kexec.h | 1 + > kernel/kexec.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ > kernel/kexec_file.c | 9 +++++++++ > 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
I guess I can take this through the tip tree along with the next one.
Eric?
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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