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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: keir@xen.org, keescook@chromium.org,
	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org, hbabu@us.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	jbeulich@suse.com, hpa@linux.intel.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com
Subject: Re: kexec: Clearing registers just before jumping into purgatory
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:48:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131011154805.GB30181@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131011154450.GB2772@redhat.com>

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:44:50AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:

> Just Curious. How is it useful. IOW, what's your use case of booting a new
> kernel and then jumping back.

I'm kexecing into a kernel with a modified /dev/mem, modifying the 
original kernel and then jumping back into it.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-11 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-11  9:28 kexec: Clearing registers just before jumping into purgatory Daniel Kiper
2013-10-11 10:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-10-11 11:04   ` Daniel Kiper
2013-10-11 12:52     ` Vivek Goyal
2013-10-11 15:37       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-11 15:44         ` Vivek Goyal
2013-10-11 15:48           ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-10-11 16:33             ` Richard Weinberger
2013-10-11 16:39               ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-11 16:42                 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-10-11 16:44                   ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-11 16:47                     ` Richard Weinberger
2013-10-11 16:55                       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-11 16:59                         ` Richard Weinberger
2013-10-11 17:01                           ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-11 20:44                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-10-11 20:50                               ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-11 16:53                     ` Vivek Goyal
2013-10-11 16:56                       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-11 22:15     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-10-14 18:24       ` Daniel Kiper

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