linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] x86: disable virt on kdump and emergency

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Message-ID: <20081105163306.GA30018@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:33:06 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>,
	"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 00/14] x86: disable virt on kdump and emergency_restart


* Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:

> Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a new version of the series to disabling virtualization on kdump,
>> now extended to do the same tricks on emergency_restart() if needed.
>>   
>
> Looks good.  If you me to push it upstream, I'll need kexec/kdump 
> acks.  Otherwise, ack for the kvm bits.

general ack for the x86 bits, but i'm not sure whether we should be 
pushing this upstream so late in the cycle. If we do it in the next 
cycle then it's best we do it in the x86 tree, the KVM impact seems 
much smaller than the general x86 impact.

	Ingo
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