Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] kexec: add kexec flag to control debug printing

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 01/19/26 at 03:49pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:31:30 +0800 Qiang Ma <maqianga@uniontech.com> wrote:
> 
> > The commit cbc2fe9d9cb2 ("kexec_file: add kexec_file flag to control
> > debug printing") added the kexec_file flag to control debug printing.
> > However, for arm64, after commit 6f8c1da071a4 ("kexec_file, arm64: print
> > out debugging message if required"), when using the kexec_load interface,
> > the kexec_image_info function is called to print debug message, but
> > it uses kexec_dprintk, which is only available under kexec_file,
> > then when specifying 'kexec -d', kexec_load interface will print nothing.
> > 
> > For riscv, commit eb7622d908a09 ("kexec_file, riscv: print out debugging
> > message if required") remove kexec_image_info(), because the content has
> > been printed out in generic code in kexec_file_load, but not in kexec_load.
> > 
> > Therefore, in order to solve the two problems mentioned above, for this
> > patchset, several things need to be done:
> > 
> > 1. Enabling kexec_dprintk is available for kexec_load.
> > 2. Add some debugging message of the deleted kexec_image_info
> >    to generic code.
> > 3. Remove duplicate debugging prints for arm64.
> 
> Some additional review input on this series would be good, if someone
> has the time.

As I have said before, I am not fan of this patchset becuase I think
it's not necessary, even though it has no much harm except of adding code.
Leave this to those who like it.