Re: In place kexec

Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-28T22:02:38Z

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> 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?

It is the normal reboot path, so the device shutdown method gets
executed.

Eric