On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 04:29:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 15:27:40 +0200 Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This a next version of Alex's "kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers" > > series (https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]), > > just to make things simpler instead of ftrace we decided to preserve > > "reserve_mem" regions. > > > > The patches are also available in git: > > https://git.kernel.org/rppt/h/kho/v4 > > > > > > Kexec today considers itself purely a boot loader: When we enter the new > > kernel, any state the previous kernel left behind is irrelevant and the > > new kernel reinitializes the system. > > I tossed this into mm.git for some testing and exposure. > > What merge path are you anticipating?
I think your tree is the most appropriate, but let's wait for Acks from x86 and arm64 people ;-) > Review activity seems pretty thin thus far? Yeah :( Maybe with Pasha's version on top of that we'll have more people reviewing. And here is another fixup for a sparse error kbuild reported: >From e1e34b96b96b89a01ee31be223c8dfc2ce1c4cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 09:55:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kho: make bin_attr_dt_kern static Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]> --- kernel/kexec_handover.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/kexec_handover.c index c26753d613cb..c21ea2a09d47 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec_handover.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_handover.c @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static ssize_t dt_read(struct file *file, struct kobject *kobj, return count; } -struct bin_attribute bin_attr_dt_kern = __BIN_ATTR(dt, 0400, dt_read, NULL, 0); +static struct bin_attribute bin_attr_dt_kern = __BIN_ATTR(dt, 0400, dt_read, NULL, 0); static int kho_expose_dt(void *fdt) { -- 2.47.2 -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
