From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1 of 3] apic: record local apic state on boot
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:54:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <625BA99ED14B2D499DC4E29D8138F1505C9BBF8DA9@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD42BCC.6020106@citrix.com>
> From: Andrew Cooper
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 4:28 AM
>
> On 18/05/11 19:49, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:08:14PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >> Xen does not store the boot local apic state which leads to problems
> >> when shutting down for a kexec jump. This patch records the boot
> >> state so we can return to the boot state when kexec'ing.
> >>
> >> This is per CPU because all 3 bioses on the boxes I have tested dont
> >> enabled all local apics on boot. As a result, we have to return to
> >> the bios state so the ACPI tables match up with the hardware state
> >> for the booting kernel.
> > Which ACPI table requires this?
> Cant remember offhand but linux (2.6.32) was doing finger pointing at the
> multi-processor tables
it would be good to understand exactly how CPU states don't match the
ACPI table. As Keir commented, your current patch is bogus which may
just work around the issue in another way.
Thanks
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-19 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-18 18:08 [PATCH 0 of 3] Fix kexec path in xen (take 2) Andrew Cooper
2011-05-18 18:08 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] apic: record local apic state on boot Andrew Cooper
2011-05-18 18:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-18 20:27 ` Andrew Cooper
2011-05-18 20:43 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-19 0:56 ` Tian, Kevin
2011-05-19 8:34 ` Ian Campbell
2011-05-19 16:21 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-19 0:54 ` Tian, Kevin [this message]
2011-05-18 23:40 ` Keir Fraser
2011-05-19 11:14 ` Andrew Cooper
2011-05-19 14:26 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-19 14:43 ` Andrew Cooper
2011-05-18 18:08 ` [PATCH 2 of 3] apic: remove 'enabled_via_apicbase' variable Andrew Cooper
2011-05-18 18:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-18 20:35 ` Andrew Cooper
2011-05-18 20:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-19 3:31 ` Tian, Kevin
2011-05-18 18:08 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] kexec: disable iommu jumping into the kdump kernel Andrew Cooper
2011-05-18 18:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-18 20:48 ` Andrew Cooper
2011-05-18 20:57 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-18 21:24 ` Andrew Cooper
2011-05-19 14:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-20 0:33 ` Kay, Allen M
2011-05-20 21:55 ` Kay, Allen M
2011-05-18 18:39 ` [PATCH 0 of 3] Fix kexec path in xen (take 2) Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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