Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers

2024-02-16 Thread Pratyush Yadav
Hi Alex, On Wed, Jan 17 2024, Alexander Graf wrote: > Kexec today considers itself purely a boot loader: When we enter the new > kernel, any state the previous kernel left behind is irrelevant and the > new kernel reinitializes the system. > > However, there are use cases where this mode of

Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers

2024-02-09 Thread Philipp Rudo
Hi Alex, On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 13:58:52 +0100 Alexander Graf wrote: > Hi Philipp, > > On 29.01.24 17:34, Philipp Rudo wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > > adding linux-integrity as there are some synergies with IMA_KEXEC (in case > > we > > get KHO to work). > > > > Fist of all I believe that having a

Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers

2024-02-06 Thread Oleksij Rempel
On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 02:43:15PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > Hey Oleksij! > > On 06.02.24 09:17, Oleksij Rempel wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > > > Nice work! > > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 02:46:47PM +, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > Make sure to fill ftrace with contents that you want to

Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers

2024-02-06 Thread Alexander Graf
Hey Oleksij! On 06.02.24 09:17, Oleksij Rempel wrote: Hi Alexander, Nice work! On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 02:46:47PM +, Alexander Graf wrote: Kexec today considers itself purely a boot loader: When we enter the new kernel, any state the previous kernel left behind is irrelevant and the new

Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers

2024-02-06 Thread Oleksij Rempel
Hi Alexander, Nice work! On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 02:46:47PM +, Alexander Graf wrote: > Kexec today considers itself purely a boot loader: When we enter the new > kernel, any state the previous kernel left behind is irrelevant and the > new kernel reinitializes the system. > > However, there

Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers

2024-02-02 Thread Alexander Graf
Hi Philipp, On 29.01.24 17:34, Philipp Rudo wrote: Hi Alex, adding linux-integrity as there are some synergies with IMA_KEXEC (in case we get KHO to work). Fist of all I believe that having a generic framework to pass information from one kernel to the other across kexec would be a good

Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers

2024-01-29 Thread Philipp Rudo
Hi Alex, adding linux-integrity as there are some synergies with IMA_KEXEC (in case we get KHO to work). Fist of all I believe that having a generic framework to pass information from one kernel to the other across kexec would be a good thing. But I'm afraid that you are ignoring some

[PATCH v3 00/17] kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers

2024-01-17 Thread Alexander Graf
Kexec today considers itself purely a boot loader: When we enter the new kernel, any state the previous kernel left behind is irrelevant and the new kernel reinitializes the system. However, there are use cases where this mode of operation is not what we actually want. In virtualization hosts for