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* [PATCH 0 of 6] Fix kexec in Xen (take 3)
@ 2011-05-25 14:32 Andrew Cooper
  2011-05-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 1 of 6] APIC: record local APIC state on boot Andrew Cooper
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From: Andrew Cooper @ 2011-05-25 14:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Andrew Cooper

This set of patches is designed to get the kexec path working again on Xen 4.x

kdump kernels can't boot if x2apic mode is enabled and the ACPI tables dont state this fact.  They also cant boot at all with interrupt remapping enabled.

These patches cause xen to track the BSP local APIC boot state and return to it before kexec'ing to a new kernel.  It also makes sure to disable IO virtualisation.

One area which is problematic is disabling interrupt remapping.  lapic_suspend() calls iommu_disable_x2apic_IR() which in a previous thread was deemed to be Intel specific and only works by chance on AMD boxes by effectivly being a NOP.  As lapic_suspend() is generic code, does this mean that we can't/don't ever disable interrupt remapping on AMD boxes?

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

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2011-05-25 14:32 [PATCH 0 of 6] Fix kexec in Xen (take 3) Andrew Cooper
2011-05-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 1 of 6] APIC: record local APIC state on boot Andrew Cooper
2011-05-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 2 of 6] APIC: remove 'enabled_via_apicbase' variable Andrew Cooper
2011-05-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 3 of 6] APIC: add crash_disable_local_APIC Andrew Cooper
2011-05-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 4 of 6] IOMMU: Sanitise some of our pointer work Andrew Cooper
2011-05-25 17:28   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 5 of 6] IOMMU: add crash_shutdown iommu_op Andrew Cooper
2011-05-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 6 of 6] KEXEC: disable iommu jumping into the kdump kernel Andrew Cooper
2011-05-25 15:01 ` [PATCH 0 of 6] Fix kexec in Xen (take 3) Wei Wang2
2011-05-25 16:14 ` Jan Beulich
2011-05-25 16:30   ` Andrew Cooper
2011-05-25 21:35     ` Keir Fraser
2011-05-26  9:12       ` Andrew Cooper
2011-05-26  9:19         ` Keir Fraser

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