[RFC PATCH 3/7] bootm: add kexec ELF support

Oleksij Rempel linux at rempel-privat.de
Fri May 4 02:53:48 PDT 2018


Am 04.05.2018 um 12:08 schrieb Antony Pavlov:
> 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().

amy be better to rename it to kexec_arch or kexec_mach. kexec_reboot is
kind if misleading

-- 
Regards,
Oleksij

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