linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10] x86, apic, kexec, Documentation: Add disable_cpu

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:41:29 +0900
From:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jingbai Ma <jingbai.ma@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10] x86, apic, kexec, Documentation: Add disable_cpu_apic
 kernel parameter

(2013/12/10 23:49), Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 05:10:58PM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
>> This patch set is to allow kdump 2nd kernel to wake up multiple CPUs,
>> a continueing work from:
>>
>>    [PATCH v3 0/2] x86, apic, kdump: Disable BSP if boot cpu is AP
>>    https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/16/300.
>>
>> At v4, basic design has 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_apicid kernel parameter,
>> which is newly introduced by 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.
>>
>> Sorry, this patch set have not include in-source documentation
>> requested by Borislav Petkov yet, but I'll post it later separately,
>> which would be better to focus on documentation reviewing.
>
> Hi hpa,
>
> Can you please consider this patch for inclusion.
>
> Thanks
> Vivek
>

Hello HPA,

Could you please give me a next feedback for inclusion?

This patch set has already been acked by Vivek and now I'm waiting for a reaction of x86 maintainers.

-- 
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke

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