Re: move hyperv CHANNELMSG_UNLOAD from crashed kernel to kdump kernel

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Thu Dec 15 2016 - 08:51:33 EST


On Thu, Dec 15, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:

> vmbus_wait_for_unload() may be receiving a message (not necessarily the
> CHANNELMSG_UNLOAD_RESPONSE, we may see some other message) on the same
> CPU it runs and in this case wrmsrl() makes sense. In other cases it
> does nothing (neither good nor bad).

If that other cpu has interrupts disabled it may not process a pending
msg (the response may be stuck in the host queue?), and the loop can not
kick the other cpus queue if a wrmsrl is just valid for the current cpu.
If thats true, the response will not arrive in the loop.

Olaf

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