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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>,
	fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [PATCH 02/03] kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V2, i386)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 20:18:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m164juu9ri.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060524225845.GB23291@in.ibm.com> (Vivek Goyal's message of "Wed, 24 May 2006 18:58:45 -0400")

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:

> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:40:41PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
>>  
>> @@ -170,45 +151,16 @@ void machine_kexec_cleanup(struct kimage
>>  NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
>>  {
>>  	unsigned long page_list;
>> -	unsigned long reboot_code_buffer;
>> -
>> +	unsigned long control_code;
>> +	unsigned long page_table_a;
>>  	relocate_new_kernel_t rnk;
>>  
>> -	/* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */
>> -	local_irq_disable();
>
> Why are you getting rid of this call? Looks sane to disable interrupts
> early.

Agreed, this and changing the segment and idt handling is gratuitous.
If you are going to make multiple unrelated changes place do them
as separate patches.

Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-25  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-24  4:40 [PATCH 00/03] kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V2) Magnus Damm
2006-05-24  4:40 ` [PATCH 01/03] kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V2, stubs) Magnus Damm
2006-05-25  2:41   ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-25  3:45     ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-25  4:37       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-25  7:11         ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-25 16:36           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-26  2:23             ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-24  4:40 ` [PATCH 02/03] kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V2, i386) Magnus Damm
2006-05-24 22:58   ` Vivek Goyal
2006-05-25  2:14     ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-25  2:18     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-05-25  2:38   ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-24  4:40 ` [PATCH 03/03] kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V2, x86_64) Magnus Damm
2006-05-25  2:50   ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-25  8:26     ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-25 15:21       ` Vivek Goyal
2006-05-26 10:42         ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-26 15:08           ` Vivek Goyal
2006-05-26 15:52             ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-25 16:01       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-26  3:17         ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-26 16:32           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-29  8:40             ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-31 17:19               ` Vivek Goyal
2006-05-26  7:40       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-05-26  9:02         ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-26  9:18           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-26  9:29             ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-24 22:56 ` [PATCH 00/03] kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V2) Vivek Goyal
2006-05-25  2:09   ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-25  2:56     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-25  3:30       ` Magnus Damm
2006-05-25  4:51         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-25  7:29           ` [Fastboot] " Magnus Damm
2006-05-25 16:40             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-26  1:57               ` Magnus Damm

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