linux-kernel - Re: KAISER: kexec triggers a warning

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Date:   Fri, 1 Dec 2017 16:37:13 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, hughd@...gle.com,
        luto@...nel.org
Subject: Re: KAISER: kexec triggers a warning

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 07:31:36AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> The only question is whether we want to preserve _some_ kind of warning
> there, or just axe it entirely.

Right, my fear would be if we keep it, then we'd have to go and
whitelist or somehow track those users which are an exception...

OTOH, it might be prudent to have a warning to catch such abnormal
situations...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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