Re: [PATCH 0/5] kexec: minor fixups and enhancements

Vivek Goyal
2014-08-25T17:00:14Z

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 06:39:47PM +0000, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are a few minor fixups and enhancements for kexec support.
>
> Patch 3 and 4 that add preprocessor macros for the kimage list flags are
> ones that I use in the arm64 kexec support I am working on, so it would
> be nice for those to go in.
>
> Please consider.

Hi Geoff,

Does arm64 has secureboot? If yes, then it might make sense to
enable the new syscall kexec_file_load() on arm64 instead of trying
to make old syscall work first.

Thanks
Vivek

>
> -Geoff
>
> The following changes since commit 7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9:
>
> Linux 3.17-rc1 (2014-08-16 10:40:26 -0600)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.linaro.org/people/geoff.levand/linux-kexec.git for-kexec
>
> for you to fetch changes up to dc3c63e69815e00dce5454bd50e2991e9ea33f64:
>
> powerpc/kexec: Use global IND_FLAGS macro (2014-08-22 11:15:18 -0700)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Geoff Levand (5):
> kexec: Fix make headers_check
> kexec: Simplify conditional
> kexec: Add bit definitions for kimage entry flags
> kexec: Add IND_FLAGS macro
> powerpc/kexec: Use global IND_FLAGS macro
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 2 --
> include/linux/kexec.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
> include/uapi/linux/kexec.h | 6 ------
> kernel/kexec.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
> 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
>
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