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From: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:37:35 -0800
Patch-mainline: v5.18-rc1
Subject: drivers: hv: log when enabling crash_kexec_post_notifiers
Git-commit: d57d6fe5bf3463aad1332ecfc7555a6888b04fd9
References: git-fixes

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>
Acked-by: Olaf Hering <ohering@suse.de>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_common.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_common.c b/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
@@ -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.