Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: ibmveth: Harden driver initilisation for kexec

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:10:47 +1100

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:34, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:22:45 +1100 Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > I realise it's late, but it'd be really good if you could send this up
> > for 2.6.16, we're hosed without it.
>
> I'm wondering if this means that for every virtual/hypervisor
> situation, we have to modify any $interested_drivers.
> Why wouldn't we come up with a cleaner solution (in the long term)?
>
> E.g., could the hypervisor know when one of it's virtual OSes
> dies or reboots and release its resources then?

It does exactly that for a regular reboot, but when we kexec we _don't_ die or 
reboot, as far as the Hypervisor is concerned it's all systems go.

It's something of a double-edged sword, we're totally in control which gives 
us lots of flexibility, and _fast_ reboot times, but we also have to do a bit 
of extra stuff (ie. this patch) to keep things sane.

cheers

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