linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu

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Message-ID: <5271DFEC.7070802@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:43:24 +0900
From:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
To:	jerry.hoemann@...com
CC:	hpa@...ux.intel.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, vgoyal@...hat.com,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bp@...en8.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
	jingbai.ma@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu_apic kernel
 parameter

(2013/10/31 9:58), jerry.hoemann@...com wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:05:06AM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> - Rebased on top of v3.12-rc6
>>>>
>>>> - Basic design has been changed. Now users need to figure out initial
>>>>    APIC ID of BSP in the 1st kernel and configures kernel parameter for
>>>>    the 2nd kernel manually using disable_cpu_apic kernel parameter to
>>>>    be newly introduced in this patch set. This design is more flexible
>>>>    than the previous version in that we no longer have to rely on
>>>>    ACPI/MP table to get initial APIC ID of BSP.
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you literally mean a human at each boot will have to configure
>>> the kdump configuration files for passing disable_cpu_apic?
>>> Or do you envision the setting of disable_cpu_apic being put into
>>> the kdump initialization scripts?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>
>> Nearer to the former case, but this is not what a human should do. It's
>> a cumbersome task. I think, on fedora/RHEL system for example, kdump
>> service should check at each boot automatically.
>>
>> HATAYAMA, Daisuke
>
>
> Daisuke,
>
> Are you planning on making changes to the kexec tools to automate
> the setting of disable_cpu_apic to the capture kernel? Or do you
> know someone who is planning this?
>
> I back ported the kernel side changes to a 4.2.32 based kernel.
> I tested the patch on a prototype system which exhibits a stable
> initial_apic_id for CPU 0.  While not something that would be suitable
> for customers, it does allow me to test the kernel portion of the patch.
>
> I will report the results of the testing later this week.
>

I'll do that after this patch is merged in kernel. But it is still under
reviewing.

-- 
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke

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