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Vitaly Kuznetsov 0b34a166f2 x86/xen: Support kexec/kdump in HVM guests by doing a soft reset
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@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-09-28 14:48:52 +01:00
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acpi ACPI: Eliminate CONFIG_.*{, _MODULE} #ifdef in favor of IS_ENABLED() 2015-09-15 03:05:45 +02:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2015-09-19 19:13:03 -07:00
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kvm arm/arm64: KVM: Remove 'config KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS' 2015-09-17 13:13:27 +01:00
linux Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-09-26 06:01:33 -04:00
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media media updates for v4.3-rc1 2015-09-11 16:42:39 -07:00
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net ipv4: send arp replies to the correct tunnel 2015-09-24 14:31:36 -07:00
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rdma Changes for 4.3-rc1 2015-09-19 20:04:11 -07:00
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soc IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.3 2015-09-08 17:22:35 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix missing inline for dummy snd_hdac_set_codec_wakeup() 2015-09-02 12:24:55 +02:00
target target: Propigate backend read-only to core_tpg_add_lun 2015-09-24 23:17:21 -07:00
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video libnvdimm for 4.3: 2015-09-08 14:35:59 -07:00
xen x86/xen: Support kexec/kdump in HVM guests by doing a soft reset 2015-09-28 14:48:52 +01:00
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