On 9/13/21 9:14 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 09:02:38AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 9/13/21 8:55 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>> This does not work under SEV-ES, because the hypervisor has no access
>>> to the vCPU registers and can't make modifications to them. So an
>>>
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 09:02:38AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 9/13/21 8:55 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > This does not work under SEV-ES, because the hypervisor has no access
> > to the vCPU registers and can't make modifications to them. So an
> > SEV-ES guest needs to reset the vCPU itself and
On 9/13/21 8:55 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> This does not work under SEV-ES, because the hypervisor has no access
> to the vCPU registers and can't make modifications to them. So an
> SEV-ES guest needs to reset the vCPU itself and park it using the
> AP-reset-hold protocol. Upon wakeup the guest
From: Joerg Roedel
Hi,
here are changes to enable kexec/kdump in SEV-ES guests. The biggest
problem for supporting kexec/kdump under SEV-ES is to find a way to
hand the non-boot CPUs (APs) from one kernel to another.
Without SEV-ES the first kernel parks the CPUs in a HLT loop until
they get