[PATCH 10/15] kdump: Hook emergency_virt_disable() on crash shutdown code

Eduardo Habkost ehabkost at redhat.com
Wed Nov 5 14:56:53 EST 2008


[v2: add comments on source code, explaining why it is needed]

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/crash.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index d84a852..040f3ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/kdebug.h>
 #include <asm/smp.h>
 #include <asm/reboot.h>
+#include <asm/virtext.h>
 
 #include <mach_ipi.h>
 
@@ -49,6 +50,11 @@ static void kdump_nmi_callback(int cpu, struct die_args *args)
 #endif
 	crash_save_cpu(regs, cpu);
 
+	/* We need to disable virtualization on all CPUs.
+	 * Having VMX or SVM enabled on any CPU may break rebooting
+	 * after the kdump kernel has finished its task.
+	 */
+	emergency_virt_disable();
 	disable_local_APIC();
 }
 
@@ -80,6 +86,13 @@ void native_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	local_irq_disable();
 
 	kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus();
+
+	/* Booting kdump kernel with VMX or SVM enabled won't work,
+	 * because (among other limitations) we can't disable paging
+	 * with the virt flags.
+	 */
+	emergency_virt_disable();
+
 	lapic_shutdown();
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC)
 	disable_IO_APIC();
-- 
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