On 11/14/2014 09:28 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Add runtime checks that fail the arm64 kexec syscall for situations that would
> result in system instability do to problems in the KVM and EFI kernel support.
> These checks should be removed when the KVM and EFI problems are fixed.
> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
> ---
> v2: Typo fixes.
> arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> index 775bcc3..faeb4f1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
[...]
> @@ -101,6 +107,22 @@ int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
>
> kexec_image_info(image);
>
> + /* TODO: Remove this message when KVM can support a kexec reboot. */
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM) && is_hyp_mode_available()) {
> + pr_err("%s: Your kernel is configured with KVM support "
> + "(CONFIG_KVM=y) which currently does not allow for "
> + "kexec re-boot.\n", __func__);
Er, failed to notice the first time: you do not need to break up the
message. This helps finding the messages in the kernel code. If you would have
run the patch thru scripst/checkpatch.pl you would have gotten the actual
warnings about that...
[...]
WBR, Sergei
