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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:33:23 +0200
From: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, hbabu@...ibm.com,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, david.vrabel@...rix.com,
jbeulich@...e.com, keir@....org, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org
Subject: Re: kexec: Clearing registers just before jumping into purgatory
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:44:50AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>
>> Just Curious. How is it useful. IOW, what's your use case of booting a new
>> kernel and then jumping back.
>
> I'm kexecing into a kernel with a modified /dev/mem, modifying the
> original kernel and then jumping back into it.
How do you update the original kernel?
Sounds interesting.
--
Thanks,
//richard
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