From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-by2on0109.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([207.46.100.109] helo=na01-by2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ZRPdr-0005Xl-VH for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:00:20 +0000 Message-ID: <1439837987.15601.29.camel@freescale.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ppc64: Add a flag to tell the kernel it's booting from kexec From: Scott Wood Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:59:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1437249439-31496-2-git-send-email-scottwood@freescale.com> References: <1437249439-31496-1-git-send-email-scottwood@freescale.com> <1437249439-31496-2-git-send-email-scottwood@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Simon Horman Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 14:57 -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > It needs to know this because the SMP release mechanism for Freescale > book3e is different from when booting with normal hardware. In theory > we could simulate the normal spin table mechanism, but not (easily) at > the addresses U-Boot put in the device tree -- so there'd need to be > even more communication between the kernel and kexec to set that up. > Since there's already a similar flag being set (for kdump only), this > seemed like a reasonable approach. > > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood > --- > kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c | 11 ++++++++++- > kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-ppc64.h | 2 ++ > purgatory/arch/ppc64/v2wrap.S | 11 +++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Any comment on these two patches? -Scott _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec