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From: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: panand@redhat.com, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, Petitboot@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add --lite option
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:08:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445540891.30908.144.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151022125012.GB20847@redhat.com>

Hi Vivek,

On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 08:50 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:17:18AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 10/21/15 at 04:12pm, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > > Add a new option --lite to kexec that allows for a fast reboot
> > > by avoiding the purgatory integrity checks.  This option is
> > > intended for use by kexec based bootloaders that load a new
> > > image and then immediately transfer control to it.
> > 
> > I think Vivek was rejecting this --lite since kdump need the purgatory
> > integrity checks. Ccing him.
> 
> Right. Why are we trying to bypass sha256 hash verification of loaded
> segments at run time, that needs to be justified. 

Please see my reply to Dave.

> Atleast on x86, this integrity verification was fast and we did not
> notice any siginificant delays in purgatory. And in that case extra knob
> like this is hard to justify.

I notice the difference on the my arm64 system, so I guess we
are even on that.

In general, faster boot times are desirable.  This option allows
a faster system boot for kexec based bootloaders that use
kexec-tools.

-Geoff



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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-22 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-21 23:12 [PATCH] kexec: Add --lite option Geoff Levand
2015-10-22  0:02 ` Jeremy Kerr
2015-10-22  0:37   ` Geoff Levand
2015-11-05  6:20     ` Scott Wood
2015-10-22  3:17 ` Dave Young
2015-10-22 12:50   ` Vivek Goyal
2015-10-22 19:08     ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2015-11-05  5:56       ` Scott Wood
2015-12-07 11:45         ` Pratyush Anand
2015-12-07 11:48           ` Pratyush Anand
2015-12-07 13:16             ` James Morse
2015-12-07 14:07               ` Pratyush Anand
2015-12-08  1:03                 ` Scott Wood
2015-12-08 16:00                 ` James Morse
2015-12-09  9:28                   ` Pratyush Anand
2016-01-11 12:46                     ` Pratyush Anand
2016-01-12  1:06                       ` Simon Horman
2015-10-22 18:57   ` Geoff Levand
2015-10-22 19:04     ` Vivek Goyal
2015-10-23  9:46     ` Dave Young
2015-10-23 18:49       ` Geoff Levand
2015-10-23 19:02     ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-11 18:30 ` [PATCH v2] kexec: Add --no-checks option Geoff Levand
2018-04-19  8:38   ` Simon Horman

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