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

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Message-ID: <aSe5HXpBtzLnHvNG@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:36:13 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Qiang Ma <maqianga@...ontech.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] kexec: print out debugging message if required
 for kexec_load

On 11/27/25 at 10:04am, Qiang Ma wrote:
> 
> 在 2025/11/27 09:47, Baoquan He 写道:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 11/26/25 at 04:44pm, Qiang Ma wrote:
> > > Overview:
> > > =========
> > > The commit a85ee18c7900 ("kexec_file: print out debugging message
> > > if required") has added general code printing in kexec_file_load(),
> > > but not in kexec_load().
> > > Since kexec_load and kexec_file_load are not triggered simultaneously,
> > > we can unify the debug flag of kexec and kexec_file as kexec_dbg_print.
> > As I said in your last post, this is not needed at all, you just add a
> > not needed thing to kernel.
> > 
> > So NACK this patchset, unless you have reason to justify it. Sorry about
> > it.
> The segment prints discussed in the last post,
> 
> this patchset has been removed, leaving only type/start/head of kimage and
> flags.
> 
> 
> I think the current patchset is still necessary.
> For example, renaming kexec_file_dbg_print is still necessary, but not for
> kexec_file.

How come renaming kexec_file_dbg_print is a justification in this case.

No, kexec_file_dbg_print is named because it's only for kexec_file
debugging printing. Because we have had enough debugging printing for
kexec_load interface. Do you have difficulty on debugging printing of
kexec_load?