linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] kexec: minor fixups and enhancements

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Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:59:17 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
Cc:	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] kexec: minor fixups and enhancements

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 06:39:47PM +0000, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are a few minor fixups and enhancements for kexec support. 
> 
> Patch 3 and 4 that add preprocessor macros for the kimage list flags are
> ones that I use in the arm64 kexec support I am working on, so it would
> be nice for those to go in.
> 
> Please consider.

Hi Geoff,

Does arm64 has secureboot? If yes, then it might make sense to
enable the new syscall kexec_file_load() on arm64 instead of trying
to make old syscall work first.

Thanks
Vivek

> 
> -Geoff
>     
> The following changes since commit 7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9:
> 
>   Linux 3.17-rc1 (2014-08-16 10:40:26 -0600)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.linaro.org/people/geoff.levand/linux-kexec.git for-kexec
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to dc3c63e69815e00dce5454bd50e2991e9ea33f64:
> 
>   powerpc/kexec: Use global IND_FLAGS macro (2014-08-22 11:15:18 -0700)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Geoff Levand (5):
>       kexec: Fix make headers_check
>       kexec: Simplify conditional
>       kexec: Add bit definitions for kimage entry flags
>       kexec: Add IND_FLAGS macro
>       powerpc/kexec: Use global IND_FLAGS macro
> 
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c |  2 --
>  include/linux/kexec.h                  | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>  include/uapi/linux/kexec.h             |  6 ------
>  kernel/kexec.c                         | 17 ++++++++++-------
>  4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
> 
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