From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
"jbeulich@suse.com" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
"konrad.wilk@oracle.com" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:12:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AEBF86.50501@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AE6542.3020302@zytor.com>
On 22/11/2012 17:47, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The other thing that should be considered here is how utterly
> preposterous the notion of doing in-guest crash dumping is in a system
> that contains a hypervisor. The reason for kdump is that on bare metal
> there are no other options, but in a hypervisor system the right thing
> should be for the hypervisor to do the dump (possibly spawning a clean
> I/O domain if the I/O domain is necessary to access the media.)
>
> There is absolutely no reason to have a crashkernel sitting around in
> each guest, consuming memory, and possibly get corrupt.
>
> -hpa
>
(Your reply to my email which I can see on the xen devel archive appears
to have gotten lost somewhere inside the citrix email system, so
apologies for replying out of order)
The kdump kernel loaded by dom0 is for when Xen crashes, not for when
dom0 crashes (although a dom0 crash does admittedly lead to a Xen crash)
There is no possible way it could be a separate domain; Xen completely
ceases to function as soon as jumps to the entry point of the kdump image.
~Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-23 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-20 15:04 [PATCH v2 00/11] xen: Initial kexec/kdump implementation Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] x86/kexec: Add extra pointers to transition page table PGD, PUD, PMD and PTE Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] xen: Introduce architecture independent data for kexec/kdump Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] x86/xen: Introduce architecture dependent " Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] x86/xen: Register resources required by kexec-tools Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] x86/xen: Add i386 kexec/kdump implementation Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] x86/xen: Add x86_64 " Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] x86/xen: Add kexec/kdump makefile rules Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] x86/xen/enlighten: Add init and crash kexec/kdump hooks Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] drivers/xen: Export vmcoreinfo through sysfs Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] x86: Add Xen kexec control code size check to linker script Daniel Kiper
2012-11-20 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] x86/kexec: Add extra pointers to transition page table PGD, PUD, PMD and PTE Jan Beulich
2012-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-21 10:52 ` Daniel Kiper
2012-11-22 12:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-22 17:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-23 9:56 ` Jan Beulich
2012-11-23 10:53 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2012-11-22 17:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-22 18:07 ` Andrew Cooper
2012-11-22 22:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-31 10:50 ` Petr Tesarik
2012-11-23 0:12 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2012-11-23 1:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-23 1:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-23 1:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2012-11-23 9:53 ` Jan Beulich
2012-11-23 10:37 ` Daniel Kiper
2012-11-23 10:51 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2012-11-23 11:13 ` Daniel Kiper
2012-11-23 10:51 ` Jan Beulich
2012-11-23 11:08 ` Daniel Kiper
2012-11-23 9:47 ` Daniel Kiper
2012-11-23 20:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
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