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Message-ID: <b8c53a8ee18c02c61260cdfd3b0a307dc7948eaa.1746874095.git.kai.huang@intel.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 11:20:09 +0000 From: Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com> To: dave.hansen@...el.com, bp@...en8.de, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com Cc: kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pbonzini@...hat.com, seanjc@...gle.com, rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com, isaku.yamahata@...el.com, reinette.chatre@...el.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com, thomas.lendacky@....com, ashish.kalra@....com, nik.borisov@...e.com, sagis@...gle.com Subject: [PATCH v2 5/5] x86/virt/tdx: Update the kexec section in the TDX documentation TDX host kernel now supports kexec/kdump. Update the documentation to reflect that. Opportunsitically, remove the parentheses in "Kexec()" and move this section under the "Erratum" section because the updated "Kexec" section now refers to that erratum. Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com> --- Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst index 719043cd8b46..61670e7df2f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst @@ -142,13 +142,6 @@ but depends on the BIOS to behave correctly. Note TDX works with CPU logical online/offline, thus the kernel still allows to offline logical CPU and online it again. -Kexec() -~~~~~~~ - -TDX host support currently lacks the ability to handle kexec. For -simplicity only one of them can be enabled in the Kconfig. This will be -fixed in the future. - Erratum ~~~~~~~ @@ -171,6 +164,13 @@ If the platform has such erratum, the kernel prints additional message in machine check handler to tell user the machine check may be caused by kernel bug on TDX private memory. +Kexec +~~~~~~~ + +Currently kexec doesn't work on the TDX platforms with the aforementioned +erratum. It fails when loading the kexec kernel image. Otherwise it +works normally. + Interaction vs S3 and deeper states ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 2.43.0
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