Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm1: KEXEC became SMP-only

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> writes:

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 01:45:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> Changes since 2.6.16-mm2:
>>> ...
>>> +x86-clean-up-subarch-definitions.patch
>>> ...
>>>  x86 updates.
>>> ...
>>>
>>
>> The following looks bogus:
>>
>>  config KEXEC
>>         bool "kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>> -       depends on EXPERIMENTAL
>> +       depends on EXPERIMENTAL && (!X86_VOYAGER && SMP)
>>
>> The dependencies do now say that KEXEC is only offered for machines that are
>> _both_ non-Voyager and SMP.
>>
>> Is the problem you wanted to express that a non-SMP Voyager config didn't
>> compile?
>>
>
> Whoops, that should be
>
> depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !(X86_VOYAGER && SMP)
>
> Voyager SMP builds don't compile with kexec(), and it isn't clear how to
> shootdown CPUs using NMIs without an APIC.

Well unless you need the crash dump functionality you don't need to
shot down CPUs using NMIs.

So I expect machine_crash_shutdown or at least a part of it
should be a call into the subarchitecture code.  Having
it be a noop on voyager would be perfectly fine.  


Eric
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