linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] efi/x86: skip efi_arch_mem

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Message-ID: <20240426153425.GGZivJgbBxzo30ja8V@fat_crate.local>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:34:25 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: "Kalra, Ashish" <ashish.kalra@....com>
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,
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	jroedel@...e.de, ardb@...nel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] efi/x86: skip efi_arch_mem_reserve() in case of
 kexec.

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.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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