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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] kexec: Allow architecture code to opt-out at
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 05:55:52PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> 
> Allow a runtime opt-out of kexec support for architecture code in case
> the kernel is running in an environment where kexec is not properly
> supported yet.
> 
> This will be used on x86 when the kernel is running as an SEV-ES
> guest. SEV-ES guests need special handling for kexec to hand over all
> CPUs to the new kernel. This requires special hypervisor support and
> handling code in the guest which is not yet implemented.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> ---
>  include/linux/kexec.h |  1 +
>  kernel/kexec.c        | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  kernel/kexec_file.c   |  9 +++++++++
>  3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

I guess I can take this through the tip tree along with the next one.

Eric?

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