Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] kexec: print out debugging message if required for kexec_load

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:56:48 +0800 Qiang Ma <maqianga@uniontech.com> wrote:

> The commit a85ee18c7900 ("kexec_file: print out debugging message
> if required") has added general code printing in kexec_file_load(),
> but not in kexec_load().
> 
> As a result, when using '-d' for the kexec_load interface,
> print nothing in the kernel space.

That doesn't sound like a thing which "kernel test robot" would detect
and report.

> Since the segments debugging message has already been printed by the
> user-space tool kexec-tools, it will not be printed here in the
> kernel space.
> 
> And print out type/start/head of kimage and flags to help debug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qiang Ma <maqianga@uniontech.com>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202510310332.6XrLe70K-lkp@intel.com/

Oh I see, that's a warning against an earlier version of this patch. 
But this is labelled "v1"!

I suggest we remove this Reported-by record.

> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out;
>  
> +	kexec_dprintk("kexec_load: type:%u, start:0x%lx head:0x%lx flags:0x%lx\n",
> +		      image->type, image->start, image->head, flags);
> +
>  	/* Install the new kernel and uninstall the old */
>  	image = xchg(dest_image, image);

Thanks, I'll await reviewer input before proceeding with this series.