From: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>,
Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>,
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Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>,
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Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu@linux.ibm.com>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/3] kernel/liveupdate: make KEXEC_HANDOVER depend on KEXEC_FILE instead of selecting it
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:26:07 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260821105609.983622-2-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260821105609.983622-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
An upcoming patch makes ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER depend on
CRASH_DUMP on powerpc:
config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER
def_bool y
depends on PPC64
depends on !CRASH_DUMP
That triggers a recursive dependency error:
error: recursive dependency detected!
symbol KEXEC_HANDOVER depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER
symbol ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER depends on CRASH_DUMP
symbol CRASH_DUMP depends on KEXEC_CORE
symbol KEXEC_CORE is selected by KEXEC_FILE
symbol KEXEC_FILE is selected by KEXEC_HANDOVER
KEXEC_HANDOVER and KEXEC_CORE end up depending on each other when
ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER depends on CRASH_DUMP. This creates a
recursive Kconfig dependency.
Change KEXEC_FILE from select to depends on to break this cycle.
This means KEXEC_FILE must be enabled explicitly instead of being
enabled automatically by KEXEC_HANDOVER.
Keep this change until the powerpc-specific KHO and CRASH_DUMP
dependency is resolved.
Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
---
kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig b/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
index c13af38ba23a..22e317dc1e1a 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ config KEXEC_HANDOVER
bool "kexec handover"
depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE
select MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH
- select KEXEC_FILE
+ depends on KEXEC_FILE
select LIBFDT
select CMA
help
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-21 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-21 10:56 [RFC PATCH 0/3] powerpc: initial support for Kexec HandOver (KHO) Sourabh Jain
2026-08-21 10:56 ` Sourabh Jain [this message]
2026-08-21 10:56 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] powerpc: add " Sourabh Jain
2026-08-21 11:56 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-08-23 15:41 ` Sourabh Jain
2026-09-02 10:34 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-09-04 14:50 ` Sourabh Jain
2026-09-04 16:22 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-09-06 10:47 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-09-06 15:32 ` Sourabh Jain
2026-08-26 13:33 ` Sourabh Jain
2026-08-21 10:56 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] powerpc/kho: exclude THP and HUGETLB_PAGE Sourabh Jain
2026-08-21 11:34 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-08-23 13:52 ` Sourabh Jain
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