Re: [PATCH 0/7] kexec_file: refactoring for other architecutres
From: Dave Young
Date: Sun Mar 04 2018 - 21:36:32 EST
On 03/02/18 at 01:56pm, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi AKASHI,
> On 02/27/18 at 01:48pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > subject:
> >
> > This is a preparatory patch set for adding kexec_file support on arm64.
> >
> > It was originally included in a arm64 patch set[1], but Philipp is also
> > working on their kexec_file support on s390[2] and some changes are now
> > conflicting.
> >
> > So these common part was extracted and put into a separate patch set for
> > better integration. What's more, my original patch#4 was split into a few
> > small chunks for easier review after Dave's comment.
> >
> > As such, the resulting code is basically identical with my original, and
> > the only difference is that kexec_file_loaders[] is now declared in kexec.h
> > after Phillipp's comment[3]. Other than that, this patch set doesn't
> > require any changes on the rest of my original patch set(#1, #6 to #13).
> >
> > Patch#1 allows making a use of purgatory optional, particularly useful
> > for arm64.
> > Patch#2 commonalizes arch_kexec_kernel_{image_probe, image_load,
> > verify_sig}() and arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup() across architectures.
> > Patch#3-#7 is also intended to generalize parse_elf64_headers(), along with
> > exclude_mem_range(), to be made best re-use of.
> >
> > [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-February/561182.html
> > [2] http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1802.1/02596.html
> > [3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-February/562041.html
> >
> > AKASHI Takahiro (7):
> > kexec_file: make an use of purgatory optional
> > kexec_file,x86,powerpc: factor out kexec_file_ops functions
> > x86: kexec_file: purge system-ram walking from prepare_elf64_headers()
> > x86: kexec_file: remove X86_64 dependency from prepare_elf64_headers()
> > x86: kexec_file: lift CRASH_MAX_RANGES limit on crash_mem buffer
> > x86: kexec_file: clean up prepare_elf64_headers()
> > kexec_file, x86: move re-factored code to generic side
> >
> > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 3 +
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h | 2 +-
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/kexec_elf_64.c | 2 +-
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_file_64.c | 39 +---
> > arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 +
> > arch/x86/include/asm/kexec-bzimage64.h | 2 +-
> > arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 332 +++++-----------------------
> > arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c | 2 +-
> > arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 45 +---
> > include/linux/kexec.h | 36 ++-
> > kernel/kexec_file.c | 236 +++++++++++++++++++-
> > 11 files changed, 336 insertions(+), 366 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.16.2
> >
>
> Reviewed them with eyes and provided some comments, but since it changed
> the elf header code, I would like to do some basic vmcore related test
> with crash tools. Will response later.
Followup: I did some basic testing, did not find problems.
>
> Overall the cleanups looks good, thank you a lot for the cleanups!
>
> Thanks
> Dave
Thanks
Dave