move hyperv CHANNELMSG_UNLOAD from crashed kernel to kdump kernel

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Wed Dec 7 15:46:38 UTC 2016


Am 7. Dezember 2016 16:04:29 MEZ, schrieb KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>:

>Yes; I had played with this approach a while ago. The issue is that the
>host knows about a 
>bunch of in memory state that will be different in the kexec kernel.
>For instance if we did all
>the cleanup as part of the boot sequence, we will need access to all
>the interrupt/messaging 
>infrastructure that was set up in the previous kernel.


Where is that stored?  Perhaps it should be put into one place,  so that the new kernel can find and use it. 

Olaf 



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