linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] kexec_file: Load kernel at top of system RAM if required

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:09:57 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+linux-riscv@...nel.org
To: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 kexec@...ts.infradead.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
 linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
 akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, takahiro.akashi@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] kexec_file: Load kernel at top of system RAM if required

Hello:

This series was applied to riscv/linux.git (fixes)
by Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>:

On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:16:56 +0800 you wrote:
> Justification:
> ==============
> Kexec_load interface has been doing top down searching and loading
> kernel/initrd/purgtory etc to prepare for kexec reboot. In that way,
> the benefits are that it avoids to consume and fragment limited low
> memory which satisfy DMA buffer allocation and big chunk of continuous
> memory during system init; and avoids to stir with BIOS/FW reserved
> or occupied areas, or corner case handling/work around/quirk occupied
> areas when doing system init. By the way, the top-down searching and
> loading of kexec-ed kernel is done in user space utility code.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [1/2] resource: add walk_system_ram_res_rev()
    (no matching commit)
  - [2/2] kexec_file: Load kernel at top of system RAM if required
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/b3ba234171cd

You are awesome, thank you!
-- 
Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot.
https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html