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From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
To: "kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com"
	<kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>, "bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: "sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com"
	<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-coco@lists.linux.dev" <linux-coco@lists.linux.dev>,
	"Yamahata, Isaku" <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/kexec: Preserve CR4.MCE during kexec
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:49:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bcaf4b7121e20ba27dd2cc2b347feb35ae7bfa53.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230213234836.3683-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 02:48 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> TDX guests are not allowed to clear CR4.MCE. Attempt to clear it
> leads
> to #VE.
> 
> Preserve the flag during kexec.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

I wonder whats going on with the pre-existing switching between eax and
rax in this code for the cr0 and cr4 manipulations. Do you know what
the reason is?

Also, for a simple non-tdx kexec regression test:
Tested-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-16  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-13 23:48 [PATCH 0/2] Kexec enabling in TDX guest Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-13 23:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/kexec: Preserve CR4.MCE during kexec Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-16  1:49   ` Edgecombe, Rick P [this message]
2023-02-16  9:43     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-16 17:33       ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2023-02-16 19:46   ` Andrew Cooper
2023-02-13 23:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/tdx: Convert shared memory back to private on kexec Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-15  1:53   ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-16 17:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] Kexec enabling in TDX guest Dave Hansen
2023-02-16 18:12   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-16 18:32     ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-22 10:26 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-24 14:30   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-24 15:22     ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-24 16:12       ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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