From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, jkosina@suse.cz, hpa@zytor.com,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] kexec: Support for loading ELF x86_64 images
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:24:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140312172458.GK14981@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140312161919.GE23890@pd.tnic>
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:42:37AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > When I posted V1 of patches, Eric Biederman had said that without ELF
> > loader support this patchset should not go in. He said that ELF is
> > very generic and if we are implementing a new system call we should
> > support ELF loader.
>
> But why, if nobody uses it?
Eric, can you please help answer this one.
Thanks
Vivek
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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
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 [this message]
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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