This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/xen: Support kexec/kdump in HVM guests by doing a soft reset
to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-xen-support-kexec-kdump-in-hvm-guests-by-doing-a-soft-reset.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0b34a166f291d255755be46e43ed5497cdd194f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:59:52 +0200
Subject: x86/xen: Support kexec/kdump in HVM guests by doing a soft reset
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 0b34a166f291d255755be46e43ed5497cdd194f2 upstream.
Currently there is a number of issues preventing PVHVM Xen guests from
doing successful kexec/kdump:
- Bound event channels.
- Registered vcpu_info.
- PIRQ/emuirq mappings.
- shared_info frame after XENMAPSPACE_shared_info operation.
- Active grant mappings.
Basically, newly booted kernel stumbles upon already set up Xen
interfaces and there is no way to reestablish them. In Xen-4.7 a new
feature called 'soft reset' is coming. A guest performing kexec/kdump
operation is supposed to call SCHEDOP_shutdown hypercall with
SHUTDOWN_soft_reset reason before jumping to new kernel. Hypervisor
(with some help from toolstack) will do full domain cleanup (but
keeping its memory and vCPU contexts intact) returning the guest to
the state it had when it was first booted and thus allowing it to
start over.
Doing SHUTDOWN_soft_reset on Xen hypervisors which don't support it is
probably OK as by default all unknown shutdown reasons cause domain
destroy with a message in toolstack log: 'Unknown shutdown reason code
5. Destroying domain.' which gives a clue to what the problem is and
eliminates false expectations.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
include/xen/interface/sched.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <linux/edd.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
+#include <linux/kexec.h>
+#endif
+
#include <xen/xen.h>
#include <xen/events.h>
#include <xen/interface/xen.h>
@@ -1800,6 +1804,21 @@ static struct notifier_block xen_hvm_cpu
.notifier_call = xen_hvm_cpu_notify,
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
+static void xen_hvm_shutdown(void)
+{
+ native_machine_shutdown();
+ if (kexec_in_progress)
+ xen_reboot(SHUTDOWN_soft_reset);
+}
+
+static void xen_hvm_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ native_machine_crash_shutdown(regs);
+ xen_reboot(SHUTDOWN_soft_reset);
+}
+#endif
+
static void __init xen_hvm_guest_init(void)
{
if (xen_pv_domain())
@@ -1819,6 +1838,10 @@ static void __init xen_hvm_guest_init(vo
x86_init.irqs.intr_init = xen_init_IRQ;
xen_hvm_init_time_ops();
xen_hvm_init_mmu_ops();
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
+ machine_ops.shutdown = xen_hvm_shutdown;
+ machine_ops.crash_shutdown = xen_hvm_crash_shutdown;
+#endif
}
#endif
--- a/include/xen/interface/sched.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/sched.h
@@ -107,5 +107,13 @@ struct sched_watchdog {
#define SHUTDOWN_suspend 2 /* Clean up, save suspend info, kill. */
#define SHUTDOWN_crash 3 /* Tell controller we've crashed. */
#define SHUTDOWN_watchdog 4 /* Restart because watchdog time expired. */
+/*
+ * Domain asked to perform 'soft reset' for it. The expected behavior is to
+ * reset internal Xen state for the domain returning it to the point where it
+ * was created but leaving the domain's memory contents and vCPU contexts
+ * intact. This will allow the domain to start over and set up all Xen specific
+ * interfaces again.
+ */
+#define SHUTDOWN_soft_reset 5
#endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_SCHED_H__ */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.2/x86-xen-support-kexec-kdump-in-hvm-guests-by-doing-a-soft-reset.patch
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