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To: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, "kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>

We are getting a claim that the qla driver corrupts memory after a
kexec, apparently due to a DMA engine left running in the before-kernel.

For an in-place kexec (as opposed to a crash dump kexec, where we switch
into dedicated memory), what shutdown paths get executed?

	-hpa

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