linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] x86/kexec: fix a kexec_file

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Date:   Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:51:57 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] x86/kexec: fix a kexec_file_load failure

On 01/08/19 at 04:46pm, Dave Young wrote:
> > Wondering why this place doesn't need the initialization assignment.
> > Isn't it to assign in all places before kexec_add_buffer() calling?
> 
> C designated initializers will make sure to initialize it as zero.
> We set KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN as 0 so it just works.

Got it, it works, thanks. People may need check code to find out
KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN is 0, then realize this fact.

Other than this, it looks good to me, ack it.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>

Thanks
Baoquan