From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 03/11] arm64: kexec_file: invoke the kernel without purgatory References: <20180425062629.29404-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> <20180425062629.29404-4-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> <9c830fe8-56d8-b43a-6265-43d31dffe61a@arm.com> <20180507052208.GD11326@linaro.org> From: James Morse Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 18:03:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180507052208.GD11326@linaro.org> Content-Language: en-US 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" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: AKASHI Takahiro Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, bhe@redhat.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, bhsharma@redhat.com, will.deacon@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com, arnd@arndb.de, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, dyoung@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net, vgoyal@redhat.com Hi Akashi, On 07/05/18 06:22, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 06:46:06PM +0100, James Morse wrote: >> On 25/04/18 07:26, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: >>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c >>> index f76ea92dff91..f7dbba00be10 100644 >>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c >>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c >>> @@ -205,10 +205,17 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *kimage) >>> cpu_soft_restart(kimage != kexec_crash_image, >>> - reboot_code_buffer_phys, kimage->head, kimage->start, 0); >>> + reboot_code_buffer_phys, kimage->head, kimage->start, >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE >>> + kimage->purgatory_info.purgatory_buf ? >>> + 0 : kimage->arch.dtb_mem); >>> +#else >>> + 0); >>> +#endif >> purgatory_buf seems to only be set in kexec_purgatory_setup_kbuf(), called from >> kexec_load_purgatory(), which we don't use. How does this get a value? >> >> Would it be better to always use kimage->arch.dtb_mem, and ensure that is 0 for >> regular kexec (as we can't know where the dtb is)? (image_arg may then be a >> better name). > > The problem is arch.dtb_mem is currently defined only if CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE. I thought it was ARCH_HAS_KIMAGE_ARCH, which we can define all the time if that's what we want. > So I would like to > - merge this patch with patch#8 > - change the condition > #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE > kimage->file_mode ? kimage->arch.dtb_mem : 0); > #else > 0); > #endif If we can avoid even this #ifdef by always having kimage->arch, I'd prefer that. If we do that 'dtb_mem' would need some thing that indicates its for kexec_file, as kexec has a DTB too, we just don't know where it is... Thanks, James _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec