From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
dyoung@redhat.com, bhe@redhat.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13][V3] kexec: A new system call to allow in kernel loading
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 07:45:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5391556D.6090204@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140605140416.GB17389@redhat.com>
On 06/05/2014 04:04 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:39:10PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> Vivek,
>>
>> As per Documentation/SubmitChecklist , please CC linux-api@ on patces
>> that change the ABI/API. See
>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-api-ml.html.
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Sorry, I did not notice that. I will CC linux-api@ in next version of
> patches in patches which introduce new systemcal..
>
>>
>> Also, is there some draft man page for this new system call?
>
> No, there is none yet. In fact I don't see a man page for old kexec
> system call either kexec_load().
Is this not what you are meaning:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/kexec_load.2.html
?
(It probably could be improved...)
> Do you want me to write man page for this new syscall?
These days, that's considered a desirable accompaniment to new
syscall proposals.
Cheers,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-03 13:06 [RFC PATCH 00/13][V3] kexec: A new system call to allow in kernel loading Vivek Goyal
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 01/13] bin2c: Move bin2c in scripts/basic Vivek Goyal
2014-06-03 16:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-03 17:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 02/13] kernel: Build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C Vivek Goyal
2014-06-04 9:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 03/13] kexec: Move segment verification code in a separate function Vivek Goyal
2014-06-04 9:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-04 18:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-04 20:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-05 14:05 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-05 14:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 04/13] resource: Provide new functions to walk through resources Vivek Goyal
2014-06-04 10:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-05 13:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 05/13] kexec: Make kexec_segment user buffer pointer a union Vivek Goyal
2014-06-04 10:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 06/13] kexec: New syscall kexec_file_load() declaration Vivek Goyal
2014-06-04 15:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-05 9:56 ` WANG Chao
2014-06-05 15:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-05 15:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-06 6:34 ` WANG Chao
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 07/13] kexec: Implementation of new syscall kexec_file_load Vivek Goyal
2014-06-05 11:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-05 20:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-06 2:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-06 18:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-11 14:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-11 17:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-06 6:56 ` WANG Chao
2014-06-06 18:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-09 2:11 ` Dave Young
2014-06-09 5:35 ` WANG Chao
2014-06-09 15:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-13 7:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-13 8:00 ` WANG Chao
2014-06-13 8:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-13 8:24 ` WANG Chao
2014-06-13 8:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-13 12:49 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-13 12:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-13 15:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-16 17:38 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-16 20:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-16 20:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-16 21:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-16 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-16 21:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-16 22:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-16 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-09 15:30 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 08/13] purgatory/sha256: Provide implementation of sha256 in purgaotory context Vivek Goyal
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 09/13] purgatory: Core purgatory functionality Vivek Goyal
2014-06-05 20:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-06 19:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-13 10:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-16 17:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-16 20:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-03 13:06 ` [PATCH 10/13] kexec: Load and Relocate purgatory at kernel load time Vivek Goyal
2014-06-10 16:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-11 19:24 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-13 16:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-03 13:07 ` [PATCH 11/13] kexec-bzImage: Support for loading bzImage using 64bit entry Vivek Goyal
2014-06-15 16:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-15 16:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-16 20:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-16 20:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-16 21:15 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-16 21:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-16 21:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-24 17:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-24 18:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-03 13:07 ` [PATCH 12/13] kexec: Support for Kexec on panic using new system call Vivek Goyal
2014-06-17 21:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 14:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-03 13:07 ` [PATCH 13/13] kexec: Support kexec/kdump on EFI systems Vivek Goyal
2014-06-18 15:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 16:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-18 17:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-03 13:12 ` [RFC PATCH 00/13][V3] kexec: A new system call to allow in kernel loading Vivek Goyal
2014-06-04 9:22 ` WANG Chao
2014-06-04 17:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-04 19:39 ` Michael Kerrisk
2014-06-05 14:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-06 5:45 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2014-06-06 18:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-05 8:31 ` Dave Young
2014-06-05 15:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-06 7:37 ` Dave Young
2014-06-06 20:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-09 1:57 ` Dave Young
2014-06-06 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-06 20:58 ` Matt Fleming
2014-06-06 21:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-06 21:02 ` Matt Fleming
2014-06-12 5:42 ` Dave Young
2014-06-12 12:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-17 14:24 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-18 1:45 ` Dave Young
2014-06-18 1:52 ` Dave Young
2014-06-18 12:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-06-16 21:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-17 13:24 ` Vivek Goyal
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