From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10] helo=mail.zytor.com) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1PXpUG-0004U3-9H for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:26:17 +0000 Message-ID: <4D1AD463.9050202@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:25:39 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: How does kdump deal with trampoline allocation? References: <4D18F798.4010708@zytor.com> <20101228000651.GB4142@redhat.com> <4D192BC3.8040802@zytor.com> <4D1A4469.2060000@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Yinghai Lu , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , Vivek Goyal On 12/28/2010 08:13 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: >> >> Well, the trampoline is optional only on 32 bits, and with my changes, >> it would be unconditional. > > What motivates your trampoline rewrite? > The fact that so far four different pieces of code have low memory trampolines, and each is implemented differently. Furthermore, I'm currently being forced to work on a fifth. This unifies all that code, but it also makes it unconditional since at least reboot=bios is always going to need to be there. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec