Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)

[Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>]

Hi Baoquan,

On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 09:38:27AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 02/06/25 at 08:28pm, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu,  6 Feb 2025 15:27:40 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > This a next version of Alex's "kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers"
> > > > series (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240117144704.602-1-graf@amazon.com),
> > > > just to make things simpler instead of ftrace we decided to preserve
> > > > "reserve_mem" regions.
> > > >
> > > > The patches are also available in git:
> > > > https://git.kernel.org/rppt/h/kho/v4
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Kexec today considers itself purely a boot loader: When we enter the new
> > > > kernel, any state the previous kernel left behind is irrelevant and the
> > > > new kernel reinitializes the system.
> > >
> > > I tossed this into mm.git for some testing and exposure.
> > >
> > > What merge path are you anticipating?
> > >
> > > Review activity seems pretty thin thus far?
> > 
> > KHO is going to be discussed at the upcoming lsfmm, we are also
> > planning to send v5 of this patch series (discussed with Mike
> > Rapoport) in a couple of weeks. It will include enhancements needed
> > for the hypervisor live update scenario:
> 
> So is this V4 still a RFC if v5 will be sent by plan? Should we hold the
> reviewing until v5? Or this series is a infrustructure building, v5 will
> add more details as you listed as below. I am a little confused.

v4 adds the very basic support for kexec handover in the simplest form we
could think of. There were discussions on Linux MM Alignment and Hypervisor
live update meetings and there people agreed about MVP for KHO that v4
essentially implements.

v5 will add more details on top of v4 and I'm not sure there's a consensus
about some of them among the people involved in KHO.
 
> > 1. Allow nodes to be added to the KHO tree at any time
> > 2. Remove "activate" (I will also send a live update framework that
> > provides the activate functionality).
> > 3. Allow serialization during shutdown.
> > 4. Decouple KHO from kexec_file_load(), as kexec_file_load() should
> > not be used during live update blackout time.
> > 5. Enable multithreaded serialization by using hash-table as an
> > intermediate step before conversion to FDT.
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.