Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755997Ab2JLGqf (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:46:35 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:26635 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755854Ab2JLGqd (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:46:33 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,576,1344182400"; d="scan'208";a="5988225" Message-ID: <5077BC82.6050105@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:45:22 +0800 From: Zhang Yanfei User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity , mtosatti@redhat.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "kvm@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: introduce a new interface to control kdump-vmcs-clear behaviour References: <5077BB7B.4030203@cn.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <5077BB7B.4030203@cn.fujitsu.com> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2012/10/12 14:46:16, Serialize by Router on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2012/10/12 14:46:17, Serialize complete at 2012/10/12 14:46:17 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1931 Lines: 69 This patch exports the variable clear_loaded_vmcs_enabled to userspace. Signed-off-by: zhangyanfei --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 8 ++++++++ kernel/sysctl.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 6d78841..038148b 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - bootloader_version [ X86 only ] - callhome [ S390 only ] - cap_last_cap +- clear_loaded_vmcs [ X86 only ] - core_pattern - core_pipe_limit - core_uses_pid @@ -164,6 +165,13 @@ CAP_LAST_CAP from the kernel. ============================================================== +clear_loaded_vmcs + +Controls if VMCSs should be cleared when host is doing kdump. Exports +clear_loaded_vmcs_enabled from the kernel. + +============================================================== + core_pattern: core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 4ab1187..3ab7d9c 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ #include #include +#include #ifdef CONFIG_X86 #include @@ -994,6 +995,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC + { + .procname = "clear_loaded_vmcs", + .data = &clear_loaded_vmcs_enabled, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + }, +#endif { } }; -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/