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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kexec, x86/boot: map systab region in identity mapping before accessing it
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:36:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190419113621.GD10324@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190419112801.GB10324@zn.tnic>

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Read again what I said: "should all be passed through boot_params".
> Which means, boot_params should be extended with a field of a flag to
> say: "this is a kexec'ed kernel".

And by that I mean similar to the XLF_EFI_KEXEC mechanism. The first
kernel or kexec(1) should prepare the info needed by the kexec'ed
kernel.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-19 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-19 10:17 [RFC PATCH] kexec, x86/boot: map systab region in identity mapping before accessing it Borislav Petkov
2019-04-19 10:50 ` Baoquan He
2019-04-19 10:55   ` Baoquan He
2019-04-19 11:20   ` Kairui Song
2019-04-19 11:34     ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-19 11:50       ` Kairui Song
2019-04-19 14:19         ` [PATCH] x86/boot: Disable RSDP parsing temporarily Borislav Petkov
2019-04-22  9:46           ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2019-04-19 11:28   ` [RFC PATCH] kexec, x86/boot: map systab region in identity mapping before accessing it Borislav Petkov
2019-04-19 11:36     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-04-22 14:33       ` Baoquan He
2019-04-22 15:17         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-26  9:51           ` Baoquan He
2019-04-26  9:58             ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-26 10:16               ` Baoquan He
2019-04-19 11:44     ` Baoquan He
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-04-16  9:52 [PATCH] x86/boot: Use efi_setup_data for searching RSDP on kexec-ed kernels Borislav Petkov
2019-04-19  8:34 ` [RFC PATCH] kexec, x86/boot: map systab region in identity mapping before accessing it Kairui Song
2019-04-19  8:58   ` Baoquan He
2019-04-19  9:39     ` Kairui Song

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