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From: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
To: "kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com"
	<kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	"nik.borisov@suse.com" <nik.borisov@suse.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "linux-coco@lists.linux.dev" <linux-coco@lists.linux.dev>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"dave.hansen@linux.intel.com" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/virt/tdx: Disable KEXEC in the presence of TDX
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:52:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7695034c0c7bf91532fb5cbd05d9a4b8cb77e70f.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc731bd3-4232-4906-9f78-448a96e3eb5b@suse.com>

On Fri, 2024-01-19 at 02:49 +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> [Adding Kirill as he has a series in flight about KEXEC]
> 
> On 18.01.24 г. 23:31 ч., Huang, Kai wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 18:01 +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> > > TDX doesn't currently support kexec so disable the latter when TDX
> > > is detected at boot time. If kexec must absolutely be supported then
> > > TDX can be disabled from the bios.
> > > 
> > > Making this decision at run time rather than as a compile time option
> > > allows distribution kernels to have both enabled and delegate to the
> > > user whether they want to use TDX/Kexec.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
> > 
> > Hi Nikolay,
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch.
> > 
> > I am working in progress on patches to make kexec() work with TDX.  I plan to
> > send them out soon (e.g., next week), but I think perhaps your patch is
> > reasonable before that is merged.
> 
> I thought Kirill's series rectifies this ?
> 

No that's for TDX guest.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-19  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-18 16:01 [RFC PATCH] x86/virt/tdx: Disable KEXEC in the presence of TDX Nikolay Borisov
2024-01-18 21:31 ` Huang, Kai
2024-01-19  0:49   ` Nikolay Borisov
2024-01-19  0:52     ` Huang, Kai [this message]
2024-01-19  0:55       ` Nikolay Borisov

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