linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86: disable virt on kdump and emergency

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Message-ID: <491FD283.60402@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:57:55 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...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>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86: disable virt on kdump and emergency_restart
 (v3)

Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a new spin of the series to disable vmx on kdump and on
> emergency_restart. Now we avoid doing the function pointer stuff by
> moving 4 small KVM functions to a header, as inline functions. The code
> looks much simpler now, but we have to be more careful because some
> additional code will run on kdump and reboot even when KVM is never
> loaded.
>
> I haven't tested the SVM changes on AMD CPUs. The changes are really
> simple, but some testing is welcome.
>
> This series is against tip.git#master, that already contains the
> nmi_shootdown_cpus() changes I've submitted previously.
>
>
>   

Looks good.  I am slightly uneasy about moving things away from vmx.h 
and svm.h; can we keep them there and #include those headers directly?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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