Re: [BROKEN PATCH] kexec for ia64

Christian Hildner
2004-07-27T08:24:41Z

Jesse Barnes schrieb:

>I'm also worried about a few things in this patch. Is relocate_kernel.S
>really necessary in 2.6? Can we copy the kernel to a contiguous 64MB aligned
>area, drop into phys mode and just jump to it?
>
You should be safe with that but you should consider flushing TLB
entries of the old kernel before the newly started kernel inserts its
own translations.

Christian