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| author | Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> | 2018-04-25 12:08:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-04-27 17:06:28 +0200 |
| commit | 3db3eb285259ac129f7aec6b814b3e9f6c1b372b (patch) | |
| tree | 4d5bc5058ead6a13380ac4ecbf64f54b7b6347e0 /arch | |
| parent | b837913fc2d9061bf9b8c0dd6bf2d24e2f98b84a (diff) | |
x86/setup: Do not reserve a crash kernel region if booted on Xen PV
Xen PV domains cannot shut down and start a crash kernel. Instead,
the crashing kernel makes a SCHEDOP_shutdown hypercall with the
reason code SHUTDOWN_crash, cf. xen_crash_shutdown() machine op in
arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c.
A crash kernel reservation is merely a waste of RAM in this case. It
may also confuse users of kexec_load(2) and/or kexec_file_load(2).
When flags include KEXEC_ON_CRASH or KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH,
respectively, these syscalls return success, which is technically
correct, but the crash kexec image will never be actually used.
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180425120835.23cef60c@ezekiel.suse.cz
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index 6285697b6e56..5c623dfe39d1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ #include <linux/init_ohci1394_dma.h> #include <linux/kvm_para.h> #include <linux/dma-contiguous.h> +#include <xen/xen.h> #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> @@ -534,6 +535,11 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) high = true; } + if (xen_pv_domain()) { + pr_info("Ignoring crashkernel for a Xen PV domain\n"); + return; + } + /* 0 means: find the address automatically */ if (crash_base <= 0) { /* |