linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86: Emergency virtualization disable function

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Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:27:32 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Haren Myneni <hbabu@...ibm.com>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, mingo@...hat.com,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86: Emergency virtualization disable function

On Wed 2008-11-05 17:56:52, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> This patch adds an interface to set a function that can be used to
> disable virtualization extensions on the CPU on emergency cases, such
> as on kdump or emergency reboot.
> 
> The function will be set by code that enables virtualization extensions
> on the CPUs (i.e. KVM), and should do the very least to disable virt
> extensions on the CPU where it is being called.
> 
> The functions that set the function pointer uses RCU synchronization,
> just in case the crash NMI is triggered while KVM is unloading.
> 
> We can't just use the same notifiers used at reboot time (that are used
> by non-crash-dump kexec), because at crash time some CPUs may have IRQs
> disabled, so we can't use IPIs. The crash shutdown code use NMIs to tell
> the other CPUs to be halted, so the notifier call will be hooked into
> the CPU halting code that is on the crash shutdown NMI handler.
> 
> [v2: drop 'unsigned int cpu' arg from function]
> [v3: make emergency_virt_disable() non-static]
> [v4: add a config option for it: CPU_VIRT_EXTENSIONS]
> [v5: add has_virt_extensions() function]
> [v6: don't define the registering functions if CPU_VIRT_EXTENSIONS is
>  not enabled]
> [v7: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL]
> 

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/virtext.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
> +/* Core CPU virtualization extensions handling
> + *
> + * This should carry the code for handling CPU virtualization extensions
> + * that needs to live in the kernel core.
> + *
> + * Author: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc.
> + */

GPL?

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