Re: [PATCH v9 0/8] Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec on ARM64

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Tue Dec 01 2020 - 06:36:20 EST


On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 06:38 -0800, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On 11/21/20 5:57 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:22:35AM -0800, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:

> >> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h | 1 -
> >> arch/powerpc/kexec/Makefile | 7 +-
> >> arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load.c | 32 --------
> >> arch/powerpc/kexec/ima.c | 106 ++-----------------------
> >> drivers/of/Makefile | 9 +++
> >
> >> drivers/of/ima_kexec.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >> drivers/of/kexec_fdt.c | 55 +++++++++++++
> >
> > Does this need to be 2 files? Just kexec.c?
>
> Since the functions defined in "ima_kexec.c" and "kexec_fdt.c" are
> enabled on 2 different kernel CONFIGs, keeping them in 2 files enables
> us to avoid using "#ifdef" in C files.

Normally that is true, but just as all of the kexec related functions
are co-located in ima/ima_kexec.c, co-locating all of the kexec related
functions in drivers/of makes sense.

thanks,

Mimi