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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, jkosina@suse.cz, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] kexec: Create a relocatable object called purgatory
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:52:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140226145246.GA23022@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530D068E.4040700@zytor.com>

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:09:34PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/25/2014 10:20 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > 
> > Please let me know if you don't like the idea and you still think there
> > should be a shared implementation between arch/x86/boot/ and
> > arch/x86/purgatory/.
> > 
> 
> That is what I would *prefer*.  There are some other string functions in
> arch/x86/boot/string.c which also ought to be sharable (and are in
> places already.)
> 

Ok, I will look into it. Possibly move optimized 32bit and 64bit version of
memcpy in arch/x86/boot/string.c and include it in purgaotry files.

Or we could define new C version of routines in boot/string.c and leave
optimized versions where they are.

Thanks
Vivek

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-26 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-27 18:57 [RFC PATCH 00/11][V2] kexec: A new system call to allow in kernel loading Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 01/11] kexec: Move segment verification code in a separate function Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 02/11] resource: Provide new functions to walk through resources Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 03/11] bin2c: Move bin2c in scripts/basic Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 21:12   ` Michal Marek
2014-01-27 21:18     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 21:54       ` Michal Marek
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 04/11] kernel: Build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 05/11] kexec: Make kexec_segment user buffer pointer a union Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 06/11] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file_load, for in kernel kexec Vivek Goyal
2014-02-21 14:59   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-24 16:41     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-25 19:35       ` Petr Tesarik
2014-02-25 21:47         ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-26 15:37       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-26 15:46         ` Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 07/11] kexec: Create a relocatable object called purgatory Vivek Goyal
2014-02-24 19:08   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-25 16:43     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-25 16:55       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-25 18:20         ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-25 21:09           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-26 14:52             ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2014-02-26 16:00   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-26 16:32     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-27 15:44       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 08/11] kexec-bzImage: Support for loading bzImage using 64bit entry Vivek Goyal
2014-02-25 18:38   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-25 18:43     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-27 21:36   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-28 16:31     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-03-05 16:37       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-03-05 16:40         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-05 18:40         ` Vivek Goyal
2014-03-05 19:47           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 09/11] kexec: Provide a function to add a segment at fixed address Vivek Goyal
2014-02-27 21:52   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-28 16:56     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-03-10 10:01       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-03-10 15:35         ` Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 10/11] kexec: Support for loading ELF x86_64 images Vivek Goyal
2014-02-28 14:58   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-28 17:11     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-03-07 17:12       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-03-07 18:39         ` Borislav Petkov
2014-03-10 14:42           ` Vivek Goyal
2014-03-12 16:19             ` Borislav Petkov
2014-03-12 17:24               ` Vivek Goyal
2014-01-27 18:57 ` [PATCH 11/11] kexec: Support for Kexec on panic using new system call Vivek Goyal
2014-02-28 17:28   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-28 21:06     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-05-26  8:25 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11][V2] kexec: A new system call to allow in kernel loading Borislav Petkov
2014-05-27 12:34   ` Vivek Goyal

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