linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH V3 3/6] x86/Hyper-V: Trigger crash enlightenment only once during system crash.

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Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:31:34 +0000
From:   Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
To:     "ltykernel@...il.com" <ltykernel@...il.com>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <liuwe@...rosoft.com>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "bp@...en8.de" <bp@...en8.de>, "hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
CC:     Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        vkuznets <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V3 3/6] x86/Hyper-V: Trigger crash enlightenment only once
 during  system crash.

From: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:57 AM
> 
> When a guest VM panics, Hyper-V should be notified only once via the
> crash synthetic MSRs.  Current Linux code might write these crash MSRs
> twice during a system panic:
> 1) hyperv_panic/die_event() calling hyperv_report_panic()
> 2) hv_kmsg_dump() calling hyperv_report_panic_msg()
> 
> Fix this by not calling hyperv_report_panic() if a kmsg dump has been
> successfully registered.  The notification will happen later via
> hyperv_report_panic_msg().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>
> ---
> Change since v1:
> 	- Update commit log
> 
> Change since v2:
>         - Update comment
> ---
>  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>