On 14/04/22 22:10, Laurent Dufour wrote:
On 11/04/2022, 10:43:54, Sourabh Jain wrote:
The option CRASH_HOTPLUG enables, in kernel update to kexec segments on
hotplug events.
All the updates needed on the capture kernel load path in the kernel for
both kexec_load and kexec_file_load system will be kept under this config.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhj...@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devol...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <lduf...@linux.ibm.com>
Thanks for the review.
- Sourabh Jain
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index b779603978e1..777db33f75b5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -623,6 +623,17 @@ config FA_DUMP
If unsure, say "y". Only special kernels like petitboot may
need to say "N" here.
+config CRASH_HOTPLUG
+ bool "kernel updates of crash kexec segments"
+ depends on CRASH_DUMP && (HOTPLUG_CPU) && KEXEC_FILE
+ help
+ An efficient way to keep the capture kernel up-to-date with CPU
+ hotplug events. On CPU hotplug event the kexec segments of capture
+ kernel becomes stale and need to be updated with latest CPU data.
+ In this method the kernel performs minimal update to only relevant
+ kexec segments on CPU hotplug event, instead of triggering full
+ capture kernel reload from userspace using udev rule.
+
config PRESERVE_FA_DUMP
bool "Preserve Firmware-assisted dump"
depends on PPC64 && PPC_POWERNV && !FA_DUMP
