From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754759Ab3K0O1o (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:27:44 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:40150 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752692Ab3K0O1j (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:27:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:27:32 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Dave Young Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, hpa@zytor.com, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, horms@verge.net.au, kexec@lists.infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, matt@console-pimps.org, toshi.kani@hp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/12] x86: add xloadflags bit for efi runtime support on kexec Message-ID: <20131127142732.GF32267@pd.tnic> References: <1385445477-9665-1-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> <1385445477-9665-10-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1385445477-9665-10-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 01:57:54PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > Old kexec-tools can not load new kernel. The reason is previously kexec-tools The reason is, kexec-tools ... previously, thus efi failed to initialize ... > do not fill efi_info in x86 setup header thus efi init fail and switch > to noefi boot. In new kexec-tools it will by default fill efi_info and > pass other efi required infomation to 2nd kernel so kexec kernel efi > initialization will success finally. succeed > > To prevent from breaking userspace, add a new xloadflags bit so kexec-tools > will check the flag and switch to old logic. > > changelog: > Matt: +&& defined(CONFIG_KEXEC) > HPA: document the flag. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Young Other than that: Acked-by: Borislav Petkov -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --