linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Use BIOS reboot on Toshiba Portege 4000

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Message-ID: <490F0DA3.4090108@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:41:39 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	mingo@...hat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use BIOS reboot on Toshiba Portege 4000

Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> We probably need to disable vmx on all CPUs, but emergency reboot skips
> native_smp_send_stop() (where we could hook a virt_disable call in).
>
> As relying on IPIs defeats the whole point of emergency_restart, a proper
> fix will need to use NMIs like the kdump code does.
>   

They should use the same code; they have a similar environment at entry 
and reliability requirements for e_r are not greater than kdump's.

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