Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] kexec: print out debugging message if required for kexec_load

Baoquan He
2025-11-27T15:30:49Z

On 11/27/25 at 05:31pm, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Do we have plan to support KEXEC_DEBUG flag?
>
> Because upstream kexec-tools already added support for KEXEC_DEBUG flag
> and that breaks the kexec_load with -d option.
>
> - kexec: add kexec flag to support debug printing
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/commit/?id=71d6fd99af7e

I think we should revert that kexec-tools commit. This whole patchset is
non-sense. Because of my carelessness, that userspace patch was merged.

Hi Sourabh,

Could you go through this patchset and help check if they are really
needed? I can't find anything to convince myself. Thanks.