drivers: hv: log when enabling crash_kexec_post_notifiers

Recently I went down a rabbit hole looking at a race condition in
panic() on a Hyper-V guest. I assumed, since it was missing from the
command line, that crash_kexec_post_notifiers was disabled. Only after
a rather long reproduction and analysis process did I learn that Hyper-V
actually enables this setting unconditionally.

Users and debuggers alike would like to know when these things happen. I
think it would be good to print a message to the kernel log when this
happens, so that a grep for "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" shows relevant
results.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220215013735.358327-1-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
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Stephen Brennan 2022-02-14 17:37:35 -08:00 committed by Wei Liu
parent 6de74d1069
commit d57d6fe5bf

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@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ int __init hv_common_init(void)
* calling crash enlightment interface before running kdump
* kernel.
*/
if (ms_hyperv.misc_features & HV_FEATURE_GUEST_CRASH_MSR_AVAILABLE)
if (ms_hyperv.misc_features & HV_FEATURE_GUEST_CRASH_MSR_AVAILABLE) {
crash_kexec_post_notifiers = true;
pr_info("Hyper-V: enabling crash_kexec_post_notifiers\n");
}
/*
* Allocate the per-CPU state for the hypercall input arg.