From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] kvm: disable virtualization on kdump
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:49:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4904676F.3020706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1tzb2hkny.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Why do we need to disable vmx mode before booting a normal linux kernel?
>
vmx mode blocks INIT (even on the host; not just on the guests) so
reboots don't work. It also assigns some memory to the cpu; if the new
kernel isn't aware of it, the cpu and the kernel would both think it
belongs to them. Finally, if vmx mode is enabled, you can't start kvm
on the new kernel.
> Is it possible to disable vmx mode before we enable interrrupts in the
> kdump kernel?
>
You need IPIs to disable vmx on smp.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-26 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 15:01 [PATCH 0/2] kvm: disable virtualization on kdump Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-20 15:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] kdump: crash-time CPU halt notifier interface Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-20 15:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm: disable virtualization when halting CPUs on crash Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-22 23:28 ` [PATCH 0/2] kvm: disable virtualization on kdump Simon Horman
2008-10-23 19:41 ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-23 22:29 ` Simon Horman
2008-10-24 1:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-26 12:49 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-10-26 14:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-26 15:07 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-26 21:39 ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-27 2:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-27 9:13 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-27 12:28 ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-27 14:02 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-27 17:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-28 19:45 ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-28 20:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-29 9:41 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-29 14:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-29 17:03 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 1:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-30 7:35 ` Chris Lalancette
2008-10-30 7:43 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 7:52 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-29 9:31 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-27 15:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-27 15:50 ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-27 8:54 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-27 13:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-10-27 14:04 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-29 20:10 ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-29 20:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-29 21:05 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-10-30 0:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-26 21:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-27 8:59 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-27 15:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-27 15:38 ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-10-26 12:46 ` Avi Kivity
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