Re: [PATCH v12 7/7] x86/crash: Add x86 crash hotplug support

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:20:59AM -0500, Eric DeVolder wrote:
> I once had CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG, but you disagreed.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Ylgot+LUDQl+G%2F5N@zn.tnic/
> 
> From there I simply went with
> 
>  #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
> 
> which route do you prefer?

If you do a single Kconfig item which depends on those two, it probably
is cleaner this way. And if the max memory ranges are hardcoded you
don't need the other prompt asking the user something she most likely
doesn't know how to answer properly.

That is, unless you wanna have that crash hotplug built in all the time.

Because CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is pretty much always enabled so you might
just as well add the crash hotplug support unconditionally, without any
Kconfig ifdeffery whatsoever except CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG as that is
special and not present on the majority of hardware.

But on a plain simple laptop or workstation which has CPU hotplug, would
it make sense for the crash ranges to get updated too when CPUs are
offlined?

If so, I think you want this code present there too, without a Kconfig
item.

If this is server-only anyway, then a single Kconfig item sounds like
not such a bad idea.

I hope that makes some sense.

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    Boris.

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