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From: panand@redhat.com (Pratyush Anand)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V2 1/2] kexec: arm64: create identity page table to be used in purgatory
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:12:11 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8aba46a4-411e-0a4c-0e85-ea955348f631@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <281f2f04-842d-73d3-cd52-8774ab549c23@redhat.com>

Hi James,

On Wednesday 18 January 2017 01:13 PM, Pratyush Anand wrote:
>
>>
>>> +     * in kexec
>>> +     */
>>> +    if (next_tbl_cnt > 5)
>>> +        die("%s: No more memory for page table\n", __func__);
>>
>> die()? With a bit of juggling can't we return an error so we never try
>> to enable
>> the MMU+dcache instead?
>>
>
> OK. can do that.

It does not seem easy to do that. We will have to revert job of 
add_buffer_phys_virt() in case of failure, and it will need lot of new 
code. So, IMHO it would be better to keep die() as of now.
What do you say?

~Pratyush

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-15  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-19  7:13 [PATCH V2 0/2] kexec-tools: arm64: Enable D-cache in purgatory Pratyush Anand
2016-12-19  7:13 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] kexec: arm64: create identity page table to be used " Pratyush Anand
2016-12-19  7:21   ` Maxim Uvarov
2016-12-19  7:23     ` Pratyush Anand
2017-01-17 17:25   ` James Morse
2017-01-18  7:43     ` Pratyush Anand
2017-03-15  9:42       ` Pratyush Anand [this message]
2016-12-19  7:13 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] arm64: enable d-cache support during purgatory sha verification Pratyush Anand
2017-01-06  3:31 ` [PATCH V2 0/2] kexec-tools: arm64: Enable D-cache in purgatory Pratyush Anand
2017-01-10 14:11   ` James Morse
2017-02-23  5:59     ` Pratyush Anand

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