In place kexec

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:29:12AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 11:06 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > Thinking about this I am a bit surprised that you would find
> > DMA left on from a disk driver.  Historically disks have been
> > pretty good about shutting off in this scenario.
> > 
> > Added to that typically we unmount all filesystems.
> > 
> > Calling rmmod on the driver before the final kexec --exec
> > could be interesting, and drivers much more reliably implement
> > .remove than .shutdown.
> > 
> > Network drivers are more likely to be a problem, but we should be
> > downing all of the network interfaces before something happens.
> > 
> > All of which is to say kexec-in-place has generally been a lot
> > less hassle, because it is so similar to the normal case.
> > 
> 
> In particular, the supposed corruption comes from the "firmware logging"
> feature in the qla2xxx driver.  I'd really like to understand if this is
> a kexec problem or a qla2xxx problem.
> 	

kernel_kexec()
   kernel_restart_prepare()
	device_shutdown()

I would suspect it to be a qla2xxx driver problem that it did not shut
down the device properly.

Vivek