move hyperv CHANNELMSG_UNLOAD from crashed kernel to kdump kernel
KY Srinivasan
kys at microsoft.com
Wed Dec 7 18:11:04 UTC 2016
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf at aepfle.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 8:40 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> Cc: vkuznets at redhat.com; gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-
> kernel at vger.kernel.org; devel at linuxdriverproject.org
> Subject: Re: move hyperv CHANNELMSG_UNLOAD from crashed kernel to
> kdump kernel
>
> On Wed, Dec 07, KY Srinivasan wrote:
>
> > May be a better solution might be to have a new mechanism to indicate
> > to the host that all state of the previous incarnation of the kernel
> > needs to be cleaned up. This will be close to what we have on
> > hardware.
>
> That would be cool, but until this appears and until its deployed in
> Azure and elsewhere I will likely lose the remaining hairs.
I think the code we have upstream works; I have not seen any issues reported.
I will try to get the host guys to implement this - hopefully it won't be too late!
K. Y
>
> Olaf
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