Re: [PATCH 3/5] arm64: kdump: do not go into EL2 before starting a crash dump kernel

From: AKASHI Takahiro
Date: Sun Mar 29 2015 - 23:21:55 EST


On 03/27/2015 07:29 AM, Geoff Levand wrote:
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 17:28 +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
@@ -64,7 +65,11 @@ void soft_restart(unsigned long addr)
setup_mm_for_reboot();

cpu_soft_restart(virt_to_phys(cpu_reset),
- is_hyp_mode_available(), addr);
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+ !in_crash_kexec &&
+#endif

Why not define in_crash_kexec without condition on CONFIG_KEXEC, say
here in process.c and then avoid these preprocessor conditionals.

Well, I thought of that, but as its name suggested, the variable should
be basically part of kdump code.
Moreover, I suspect that some one might reject a whole idea of patch #3.

-Takahiro AKASHI

+ is_hyp_mode_available(),
+ addr);

/* Should never get here */
BUG();



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