On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 01:01:32PM -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > The following two patches should make kdump work when the kvm-intel module > is loaded. We need to disable vmx mode before booting the kdump kernel, > so I've introduced a notifier interface where KVM can hook and disable > virtualization on all CPUs just before they are halted. > > It has the same purpose of the KVM reboot notifier that gets executed > at kexec-time. But on the kdump case, things are not as simple because > the kernel has just crashed. > > The notifier interface being introduced is x86-specific. I don't know > if an arch-independent interface would be more appropriate for this > case. > > It was tested only using kvm-intel. Testing on different machines > is welcome. These changes look fine to me from a kexec/kdump point of view. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> -- Simon Horman VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: www.valinux.co.jp/en
