linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Preserve TPM log across kexec

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 15:42:45 -0600
From: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: mpe@...erman.id.au, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jarkko@...nel.org, rnsastry@...ux.ibm.com, peterhuewe@....de,
	viparash@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Preserve TPM log across kexec

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 11:08:20AM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/6/24 10:55, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > This series resolves an issue on PowerVM and KVM on Power where the memory
> > the TPM log was held in may become inaccessible or corrupted after a kexec
> > soft reboot. The solution on these two platforms is to store the whole log
> > in the device tree because the device tree is preserved across a kexec with
> > either of the two kexec syscalls.
> > 
> FYI: This was the previous attempt that didn't work with the older kexec
> syscall: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4afde78d-e138-9eee-50e0-dbd32f4dcfe0@linux.ibm.com/T/#m158630d214837e41858b03d4b025e6f96cb8f251

Doesn't everyone else still need that? Is powerpc the only ones that 
care about the old kexec syscall?

Rob