From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-driver@qlogic.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: In place kexec
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:11:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C53400F.6020408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280520940.28006.7.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
On 07/30/2010 01:15 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> - 'on with page tables cleared', in which case you are safe but some
> devices might get upset when their DMA is aborted, so their driver
> needs not to be a pile of shit, and needs to recover from that.
>
I presume this is the state he's referring to.
Now, if this means there are page tables in memory those tables are
still subject to being overwritten.
-hpa
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 21:57 In place kexec H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-28 22:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-29 13:43 ` Neil Horman
2010-07-29 15:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-29 15:06 ` Neil Horman
2010-07-29 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-29 18:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-29 18:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-29 19:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-07-29 19:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-29 19:55 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-07-30 3:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-30 4:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-30 5:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-30 16:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-30 16:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-30 18:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-30 22:52 ` Andrew Vasquez
2010-07-30 23:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-30 23:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-30 16:53 ` David Woodhouse
2010-07-30 18:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-30 18:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-07-30 18:50 ` David Woodhouse
2010-07-30 18:56 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-07-30 19:17 ` David Woodhouse
2010-07-30 19:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-30 19:46 ` David Woodhouse
2010-07-30 20:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-30 20:15 ` David Woodhouse
2010-07-30 21:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-07-30 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-30 21:18 ` Khalid Aziz
2010-07-30 21:44 ` Khalid Aziz
[not found] ` <20120425211512.GA8583@ldl.usa.hp.com>
2012-04-25 22:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-07-29 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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