Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] kexec: Allow architecture code to opt-out at runtime

[Eric W. Biederman]

Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 05:55:52PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Allow a runtime opt-out of kexec support for architecture code in case
>> the kernel is running in an environment where kexec is not properly
>> supported yet.
>> 
>> This will be used on x86 when the kernel is running as an SEV-ES
>> guest. SEV-ES guests need special handling for kexec to hand over all
>> CPUs to the new kernel. This requires special hypervisor support and
>> handling code in the guest which is not yet implemented.
>> 
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.10+
>> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/kexec.h |  1 +
>>  kernel/kexec.c        | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>  kernel/kexec_file.c   |  9 +++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> I guess I can take this through the tip tree along with the next one.

I seem to remember the consensus when this was reviewed that it was
unnecessary and there is already support for doing something like
this at a more fine grained level so we don't need a new kexec hook.

Eric