On 8/29/2024 9:50 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2024, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> On August 27, 2024 10:38:04 PM GMT+02:00, Ashish Kalra >> <ashish.ka...@amd.com> wrote: >>> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.ka...@amd.com> >>> >>> With active SNP VMs, SNP_SHUTDOWN_EX invoked during panic notifiers causes >>> crashkernel boot failure with the following signature: >> Why would SNP_SHUTDOWN be allowed *at all* if there are active SNP guests and >> there's potential to lose guest data in the process?! > Because if the host is panicking, guests are hosed regardless. Unless I'm > misreading things, the goal here is to ensure the crashkernel can actually > capture > a kdump.
Yes, that is the main goal here to ensure that crashkernel can boot and capture a kdump on a SNP enabled host regardless of SNP VMs running. Thanks, Ashish _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
