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

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Message-ID: <20081106122800.GN5247@blackpad>
Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:28:00 -0200
From:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	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 00/14] x86: disable virt on kdump and emergency_restart

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:49:57AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> 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.
>>   
>
> It certainly doesn't fall under the recent regression rule, and there's  
> a simple workaround (rmmod -r kvm) so I agree it's best to defer for the  
> next cycle.

Shouldn't reboot=kbd be the default again still during this cycle, then?

The cases where the new reboot=acpi default broke didn't necessarily
involve KVM.

-- 
Eduardo
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