linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Document/kexec: Generalize crash hotplug description

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Message-ID: <c40d12df-fdb6-4597-8936-69c4af602609@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:41:14 +0530
From: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <petr@...arici.cz>, Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Document/kexec: Generalize crash hotplug description

Hello Baoquan,

On 13/08/24 14:47, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 08/13/24 at 10:58am, Sourabh Jain wrote:
>> Hello Baoquan,
>>
>> On 13/08/24 10:34, Baoquan He wrote:
>>> On 08/12/24 at 09:46am, Sourabh Jain wrote:
>>> ......
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Changelog:
>>>>
>>>> Since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240805050829.297171-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com/
>>>>     - Update crash_hotplug sysfs document as suggested by Petr T
>>>>     - Update an error message in crash_handle_hotplug_event and
>>>>       crash_check_hotplug_support function.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>> ......
>>>> diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
>>>> index 63cf89393c6e..c1048893f4b6 100644
>>>> --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
>>>> +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
>>>> @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ int crash_check_hotplug_support(void)
>>>>    	crash_hotplug_lock();
>>>>    	/* Obtain lock while reading crash information */
>>>>    	if (!kexec_trylock()) {
>>>> -		pr_info("kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate\n");
>>>> +		pr_info("kexec_trylock() failed, kdump image may be inaccurate\n");
>>> Wondering why this need be updated.
>> In some architectures, additional kexec segments become obsolete during a
>> hotplug event,
>> so simply calling out the `elfcorehdr may be inaccurate` may not be
>> sufficient.
>> Therefore, it has been generalized with the kdump image.
> OK, I forgot the case in ppc, makes sense to me, thx.
>
> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>

Do we know who will be applying this patch and how it will be merged 
into Linus’s tree?

Thanks,
Sourabh Jain