Should arm64 have a custom crash shutdown handler?

[Guilherme G. Piccoli]

On 05/05/2022 09:53, Mark Rutland wrote:
> [...]
> Looking at those, the cleanup work is all arch-specific. What exactly would we
> need to do on arm64, and why does it need to happen at that point specifically?
> On arm64 we don't expect as much paravirtualization as on x86, so it's not
> clear to me whether we need anything at all.
> 
>> Anyway, the idea here was to gather a feedback on how "receptive" arm64
>> community would be to allow such customization, appreciated your feedback =)
> 
> ... and are you trying to do this for Hyper-V or just using that as an example?
> 
> I think we're not going to be very receptive without a more concrete example of
> what you want.
> 
> What exactly do *you* need, and *why*? Is that for Hyper-V or another hypervisor?
> 
> Thanks
> Mark.

Hi Mark, my plan would be doing that for Hyper-V - kind of the same
code, almost. For example, in hv_crash_handler() there is a stimer
clean-up and the vmbus unload - my understanding is that this same code
would need to run in arm64. Michael Kelley is CCed, he was discussing
with me in the panic notifiers thread and may elaborate more on the needs.

But also (not related with my specific plan), I've seen KVM quiesce code
on x86 as well [see kvm_crash_shutdown() on arch/x86] , I'm not sure if
this is necessary for arm64 or if this already executing in some
abstracted form, I didn't dig deep - probably Vitaly is aware of that,
hence I've CCed him here.

Cheers,


Guilherme