Re: [PATCH 0/2] Preserve TPM log across kexec

From: Stefan Berger
Date: Thu Mar 07 2024 - 17:32:37 EST




On 3/7/24 16:42, Rob Herring wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 11:08:20AM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:


On 3/6/24 10:55, Stefan Berger wrote:
This series resolves an issue on PowerVM and KVM on Power where the memory
the TPM log was held in may become inaccessible or corrupted after a kexec
soft reboot. The solution on these two platforms is to store the whole log
in the device tree because the device tree is preserved across a kexec with
either of the two kexec syscalls.

FYI: This was the previous attempt that didn't work with the older kexec
syscall: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4afde78d-e138-9eee-50e0-dbd32f4dcfe0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m158630d214837e41858b03d4b025e6f96cb8f251

Doesn't everyone else still need that? Is powerpc the only ones that
Are you referring to the old series with 'that' ? I more or less had to abandon it because it wouldn't solve the problem for the old kexec syscall, so that's why I am embedding the whole log now in the devicetree since the DT is properly carried across the kexec soft reboot on PowerVM and KVM for Power. Maybe other platforms will (have to) follow, but I don't know.

care about the old kexec syscall?

Rob