xen/pvhvm: Initialize xen panic handler for PVHVM guests
authorVaughan Cao <vaughan.cao@oracle.com>
Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:10:56 +0000 (16:10 +0800)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:37:03 +0000 (15:37 -0400)
kernel use callback linked in panic_notifier_list to notice others when panic
happens.
NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...){
    ...
    atomic_notifier_call_chain(&panic_notifier_list, 0, buf);
}
When Xen becomes aware of this, it will call xen_reboot(SHUTDOWN_crash) to
send out an event with reason code - SHUTDOWN_crash.

xen_panic_handler_init() is defined to register on panic_notifier_list but
we only call it in xen_arch_setup which only be called by PV, this patch is
necessary for PVHVM.

Without this patch, setting 'on_crash=coredump-restart' in PVHVM guest config
file won't lead a vmcore to be generate when the guest panics. It can be
reproduced with 'echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger'.

Signed-off-by: Vaughan Cao <vaughan.cao@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c

index b5a22fa7e249989584691d80f6c051423d455b07..15939e872db2c34b3563fe0baea64c43f033cb45 100644 (file)
@@ -1713,6 +1713,8 @@ static void __init xen_hvm_guest_init(void)
 
        xen_hvm_init_shared_info();
 
+       xen_panic_handler_init();
+
        if (xen_feature(XENFEAT_hvm_callback_vector))
                xen_have_vector_callback = 1;
        xen_hvm_smp_init();