[ANNOUNCE] kexec-tools v2.0.24 preparation

[Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 11:07:01AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 03/29/22 at 06:16pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 03/29/22 at 11:17am, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 02:55:43PM +0800, RuiRui Yang wrote:
> > > > Hi Simon,
> > > > 
> > > > Recently RH CKI detected a kexec/kdump failure with kexec_load being
> > > > used,  the 2nd kernel can not boot, just reset to bios/firmware
> > > > instead.
> > > > 
> > > > This only happens with gcc 12.x compiled kexec-tools,  add
> > > > "-fno-tree-vectorize" to purgatory/Makefile CFLAGS make the bug
> > > > dissappear, but I hope people can help to verify and confirm it does
> > > > fix the problem.   It would be better to wait a few days so that we
> > > > can fix it in the coming release, what do you think?
> > > > 
> > > > Cced Baoquan who is handling the issue..
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Hi RuiRui,
> > > 
> > > thanks for letting us know.
> > > 
> > > I'm happy with delaying the release for a short time to accommodate
> > > resolving this problem. Please let us know when there is some progress.
> > 
> > Thanks for quick response, Simon. I have sent a patch to fix this,
> > please check the patch v2 with subject 'purgatory: do not enable
> > vectorization automatically for purgatory compiling'.
> > 
> > I tested on machine where the issue can stably reproduced, and can
> > confirm adding -fno-tree-vectorize to compiling options of purgatory can
> > fix the issue.
> > 
> > Dave, please check if it is expected from you.
> > 
> 
> Hi Baoquan, it works for me.  Thanks for posting it. 
> 
> Simon, I used another email/name Ruirui Yang, the two emails both are
> fine, but I usually use "Dave Young" in community, just fyi in case this
> cause some confusion :)

Thanks, as you can see I was a little confused (often is the case).

It sounds like the patch is good, I'll look into applying it.