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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:32:18 -0500
From: "Kalra, Ashish" <ashish.kalra@....com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
 x86@...nel.org, rafael@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
 adrian.hunter@...el.com, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com,
 jun.nakajima@...el.com, rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com, thomas.lendacky@....com,
 michael.roth@....com, seanjc@...gle.com, kai.huang@...el.com,
 bhe@...hat.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, bdas@...hat.com,
 vkuznets@...hat.com, dionnaglaze@...gle.com, anisinha@...hat.com,
 jroedel@...e.de, ardb@...nel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] efi/x86: skip efi_arch_mem_reserve() in case of
 kexec.

On 4/26/2024 10:34 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:28:41AM -0500, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
>> "Chained guest kexec" is when we are in a guest and kexec-ing into a new
>> kernel and then this kernel kexecs into another and so on ...
> Make sure to explain your terminology:
>
> $ git grep -rE "chained.*kexec"
> $
>
> and there's nothing "chained" about it - you're simply kexec-ing in
> a loop.
>
> Please don't make it sound more complicated than it is.

I have posted another version of this patch series (v6) with 
restructured and updated commit message for this patch, so please review 
this v6 series.

Thanks, Ashish


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