[RFC PATCH 3/7] bootm: add kexec ELF support
Antony Pavlov
antonynpavlov at gmail.com
Fri May 4 03:08:51 PDT 2018
On Fri, 4 May 2018 07:54:08 +0200
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 03:09:03PM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > +static int do_bootm_elf(struct image_data *data)
> > +{
> > + kexec_load_bootm_data(data);
> > +
> > + reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC, data);
> > +
> > + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> > +}
> > +
>
> I can't really judge this series. This is the only thing I stumbled
> upon: I see no reason to name the architecture specific kexec function
> 'reboot'. I would expect some kexec specific name, like arch_kexec or
> similar.
>
This reboot function is copy-n-paste from linux kernel reboot syscall (see linux/kernel/reboot.c
for details).
At the moment there is only one constant for reboot()'s first argument (LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC),
so it's reasonable to elimenate this first argument and rename function to kexec_reboot().
>
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Antony Pavlov
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