Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 May 2017 17:48:54 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 28/32] x86/mm, kexec: Allow kexec to be used with SME |
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On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:03:52PM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote: > For kdump case, it will be put in some reserved crash memory allocated > by kexec-tools, and passed the corresponding start address of the > allocated reserved crash memory to kdump kernel via "elfcorehdr=", > please see kernel functions setup_elfcorehdr() and vmcore_init() for > how it is parsed by kdump kernel.
... which could be a great way to pass the SME status to the second kernel without any funky sysfs games.
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