linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/11] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file

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Message-ID: <20140226154654.GB23022@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:46:54 -0500
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, hpa@...or.com, mjg59@...f.ucam.org,
	greg@...ah.com, jkosina@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file_load, for in
 kernel kexec

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:37:09PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:41:31AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Right now there is only one user. But once other image loader support
> > comes along or other arches support file based kexec, they can make
> > use of same function.
> > 
> > This is a pretty important modification as it decides what's the starting
> > point of next kernel image. I wanted to make it a function callable by
> > users who wanted to modify it instead of of letting them directly 
> > modify image->start.
> 
> But are you expecting any other way to set image->start by the other
> arches/image loaders?

No. I am expecting other loaders to just call this function to set the
start of kernel image.

Thanks
Vivek
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