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From: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] TDX host: kexec/kdump support
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:30:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66a71a55117b64cad61a9c9206f8142dca03e18b.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8374a887-9bde-c7c0-ace2-0afe22f1f616@amd.com>

On Mon, 2025-07-21 at 09:50 -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 7/21/25 08:08, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > On 7/17/25 16:46, Kai Huang wrote:
> > > This series is the latest attempt to support kexec on TDX host following
> > > Dave's suggestion to use a percpu boolean to control WBINVD during
> > > kexec.
> > > 
> > > Hi Boris/Tom,
> > > 
> > > As requested, I added the first patch to cleanup the last two 'unsigned
> > > int' parameters of the relocate_kernel() into one 'unsigned int' and pass
> > > flags instead.  The patch 2 (patch 1 in v3) also gets updated based on
> > > that.  Would you help to review?  Thanks.
> > > 
> > > I tested that both normal kexec and preserve_context kexec works (using
> > > the tools/testing/selftests/kexec/test_kexec_jump.sh).  But I don't have
> > > SME capable machine to test.
> > > 
> > > Hi Tom, I added your Reviewed-by and Tested-by in the patch 2 anyway
> > > since I believe the change is trivial and straightforward).  But due to
> > > the cleanup patch, I appreciate if you can help to test the first two
> > > patches again.  Thanks a lot!
> > 
> > Everything is working, Thanks!
> 
> See my comments in patch #1. I didn't test with context preservation, so
> that bit was never set. If it was, I think things would have failed.

I actually tested the test_kexec_jump.sh in kselftest as mentioned above
in a VM.  I got "# kexec_jump succeeded [PASS]" so I think it worked :-) 
But unfortunately I don't know how to test preserve_context kexec in any
other way.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-21 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-17 21:46 [PATCH v4 0/7] TDX host: kexec/kdump support Kai Huang
2025-07-17 21:46 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] x86/kexec: Consolidate relocate_kernel() function parameters Kai Huang
2025-07-21 14:40   ` Tom Lendacky
2025-07-21 21:20     ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-21 21:27       ` Tom Lendacky
2025-07-21 21:36         ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-21 23:05           ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-07-21 23:29             ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-21 23:42               ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-22  0:44                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-07-22  0:53                   ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-23  8:13                     ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-22 14:58           ` Borislav Petkov
2025-07-23  2:13             ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-17 21:46 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] x86/sme: Use percpu boolean to control WBINVD during kexec Kai Huang
2025-07-17 21:46 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] x86/virt/tdx: Mark memory cache state incoherent when making SEAMCALL Kai Huang
2025-07-22 14:52   ` Chao Gao
2025-07-23  1:59     ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-23  6:47       ` Chao Gao
2025-07-17 21:46 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] x86/kexec: Disable kexec/kdump on platforms with TDX partial write erratum Kai Huang
2025-07-17 21:46 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] x86/virt/tdx: Remove the !KEXEC_CORE dependency Kai Huang
2025-07-17 21:46 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/virt/tdx: Update the kexec section in the TDX documentation Kai Huang
2025-07-17 21:46 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] KVM: TDX: Explicitly do WBINVD when no more TDX SEAMCALLs Kai Huang
2025-07-21 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] TDX host: kexec/kdump support Tom Lendacky
2025-07-21 14:50   ` Tom Lendacky
2025-07-21 21:30     ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-21 21:30     ` Huang, Kai [this message]
2025-07-22 13:50 ` Paolo Bonzini

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