linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 RESEND 2/4] kexec: allocate unencrypted control pages for kdump in case SME is enabled

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Message-ID: <20180929085354.GC11115@zn.tnic>
Date:   Sat, 29 Sep 2018 10:53:54 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     lijiang <lijiang@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
        x86@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, thomas.lendacky@....com,
        bhelgaas@...gle.com, baiyaowei@...s.chinamobile.com, tiwai@...e.de,
        brijesh.singh@....com, dyoung@...hat.com, bhe@...hat.com,
        jroedel@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 RESEND 2/4] kexec: allocate unencrypted control pages
 for kdump in case SME is enabled

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 06:09:04PM +0800, lijiang wrote:
> But there are another cases, we might load or unload the crash kernel image and
> initrafms, maybe again and again for test or debug, we don't reboot at once. For

I don't think this qualifies even as a use case - this is what you do
during development.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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