linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] x86/xen/enlighten: Add init and crash kexec/kdump hooks

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Date:	Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:53:41 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>
CC:	andrew.cooper3@...rix.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	jbeulich@...e.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com, maxim.uvarov@...cle.com,
	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, vgoyal@...hat.com,
	x86@...nel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] x86/xen/enlighten: Add init and crash kexec/kdump
 hooks

On 12/26/2012 06:18 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> Add init and crash kexec/kdump hooks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>
> ---
>   arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c |   11 +++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

On the general issue of hooks:

Hooks need their pre- and postsemantics extremely ewell documented, let 
they end up being an impossible roadblock to development.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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