Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 6] Fix kexec in Xen (take 3)

[Wei Wang2 <wei.wang2@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 25 May 2011 16:32:02 Andrew Cooper wrote:
> This set of patches is designed to get the kexec path working again on Xen
> 4.x
>
> kdump kernels can't boot if x2apic mode is enabled and the ACPI tables dont
> state this fact.  They also cant boot at all with interrupt remapping
> enabled.
>
> These patches cause xen to track the BSP local APIC boot state and return
> to it before kexec'ing to a new kernel.  It also makes sure to disable IO
> virtualisation.
>
> One area which is problematic is disabling interrupt remapping. 
> lapic_suspend() calls iommu_disable_x2apic_IR() which in a previous thread
> was deemed to be Intel specific and only works by chance on AMD boxes by
> effectivly being a NOP.  As lapic_suspend() is generic code, does this mean
> that we can't/don't ever disable interrupt remapping on AMD boxes?

Yes, there is no explicit way to disable amd iommu like disable_intremap() for 
vtd. The reason is that interrupt remapping is enabled per device and there 
is no global flag to disable it. We need to visit every device entry and then 
disable per device, but it still sounds doable... Maybe we could make 
disable_intremap() generic for both Intel and AMD?
Thanks,
Wei


> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
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