linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] kexec: print out debugging message if required for kexec

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Message-ID: <aShunGBgVbEZmCxO@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:30:36 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: Qiang Ma <maqianga@...ontech.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	shivang upadhyay <shivangu@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] kexec: print out debugging message if required
 for kexec_load

On 11/27/25 at 05:31pm, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Do we have plan to support KEXEC_DEBUG flag?
> 
> Because upstream kexec-tools already added support for KEXEC_DEBUG flag
> and that breaks the kexec_load with -d option.
> 
> - kexec: add kexec flag to support debug printing
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/commit/?id=71d6fd99af7e

I think we should revert that kexec-tools commit. This whole patchset is
non-sense. Because of my carelessness, that userspace patch was merged.

Hi Sourabh,

Could you go through this patchset and help check if they are really
needed? I can't find anything to convince myself. Thanks.