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From: joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
To: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	"Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add option to fallback to old kexec syscall when kexec file based syscall failed
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:28:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160715102805.GL27155@linux-rxt1.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160715095822.5caaaa16@hananiah.suse.cz>

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 09:58:22AM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 07:57:22 +0800
> joeyli <jlee@suse.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Vivek
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:53:28AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 04:45:11PM +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> > > > This patch adds a new "--fallback-kexec" option to give a chance to
> > > > fallback to old kexec syscall when file based kexec syscall operation
> > > > failed.
> > > 
> > > I think caller should switch to using different interface if need be. But
> > > I don't see much point in providing an option for this in kexec-tools.
> > > 
> > > Vivek
> > >
> > 
> > OK~ Understood!
> > 
> > Thanks for Baoquan's and your opinion for this patch.
> 
> Is there some sort of diagnostics, so a calling script can determine
> whether kexec failed, because there's no suppor for kexec_file_load(2)
> or for a different reason? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Petr T

The calling script needs to use "-s" option to access file based kexec, then
check the result and call kexec without -s to access old kexec syscall.

With this patch is just more convenience.


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-15 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-14  8:45 [PATCH] kexec: Add option to fallback to old kexec syscall when kexec file based syscall failed Lee, Chun-Yi
2016-07-14  9:51 ` Baoquan He
2016-07-14 10:02   ` Baoquan He
2016-07-14 10:35   ` joeyli
2016-07-14 14:12     ` Baoquan He
2016-07-14 14:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2016-07-14 23:57   ` joeyli
2016-07-15  7:58     ` Petr Tesarik
2016-07-15 10:28       ` joeyli [this message]
2016-07-15 11:20         ` Petr Tesarik
2016-07-15 12:51       ` Vivek Goyal
2016-07-15 14:42         ` Petr Tesarik
2016-07-15 15:13           ` Vivek Goyal
2016-07-15 15:26             ` Petr Tesarik

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