Re: [PATCH 01/11] kexec_file: allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole

2020-07-02 Thread Dave Young
On 07/02/20 at 12:01am, Hari Bathini wrote: > > > On 01/07/20 1:16 pm, Dave Young wrote: > > On 06/29/20 at 05:26pm, Hari Bathini wrote: > >> Hi Petr, > >> > >> On 29/06/20 5:09 pm, Petr Tesarik wrote: > >>> Hi Hari, > >>> > >>> is there any good reason to add two more functions with a very simil

Re: [PATCH 01/11] kexec_file: allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole

2020-07-01 Thread Hari Bathini
On 01/07/20 1:16 pm, Dave Young wrote: > On 06/29/20 at 05:26pm, Hari Bathini wrote: >> Hi Petr, >> >> On 29/06/20 5:09 pm, Petr Tesarik wrote: >>> Hi Hari, >>> >>> is there any good reason to add two more functions with a very similar >>> name to an existing function? AFAICS all you need is a w

Re: [PATCH 01/11] kexec_file: allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole

2020-07-01 Thread Dave Young
On 06/29/20 at 05:26pm, Hari Bathini wrote: > Hi Petr, > > On 29/06/20 5:09 pm, Petr Tesarik wrote: > > Hi Hari, > > > > is there any good reason to add two more functions with a very similar > > name to an existing function? AFAICS all you need is a way to call a > > PPC64-specific function from

Re: [PATCH 01/11] kexec_file: allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole

2020-06-29 Thread Hari Bathini
Hi Petr, On 29/06/20 5:09 pm, Petr Tesarik wrote: > Hi Hari, > > is there any good reason to add two more functions with a very similar > name to an existing function? AFAICS all you need is a way to call a > PPC64-specific function from within kexec_add_buffer (PATCH 4/11), so > you could add so

Re: [PATCH 01/11] kexec_file: allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole

2020-06-29 Thread Petr Tesarik
Hi Hari, is there any good reason to add two more functions with a very similar name to an existing function? AFAICS all you need is a way to call a PPC64-specific function from within kexec_add_buffer (PATCH 4/11), so you could add something like this: int __weak arch_kexec_locate_mem_hole(struc

Re: [PATCH 01/11] kexec_file: allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole

2020-06-28 Thread Hari Bathini
On 28/06/20 7:58 am, piliu wrote: > Hi Hari, > > If in [4/11], get_exclude_memory_ranges() turns out to be unnecessary > ,then this patch is abundant either. As my understanding, memblock has > already helped to achieved the purpose that get_exclude_memory_ranges() > wants. As mentioned in th

Re: [PATCH 01/11] kexec_file: allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole

2020-06-27 Thread piliu
Hi Hari, If in [4/11], get_exclude_memory_ranges() turns out to be unnecessary ,then this patch is abundant either. As my understanding, memblock has already helped to achieved the purpose that get_exclude_memory_ranges() wants. Thanks, Pingfan On 06/27/2020 03:04 AM, Hari Bathini wrote: > Some

Re: [PATCH 01/11] kexec_file: allow archs to handle special regions while locating memory hole

2020-06-26 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 26/06/2020 à 21:04, Hari Bathini a écrit : Some archs can have special memory regions, within the given memory range, which can't be used for the buffer in a kexec segment. As kexec_add_buffer() function is being called from generic code as well, add weak arch_kexec_add_buffer definition fo