[PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-stage load

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang at intel.com> writes:


> I think it is reasonable to enable jumping back and forth more than one
> time.

I'm not opposed.  I just don't understand the utility yet.

> So the following should be possible:
>
> 1. Jump from A to B (actually jump to purgatory, trigger the boot of B)
> 2. Jump from B to A
> 3. Jump from A to B again (jump to the kexec_jump_back_entry of B)
                      (And we go through purgatory which remembers
                       the kexec_jump_back_entry of B)
> 4. Jump from B to A
> ...
>
> So it should be possible to get the re-entry point of kernel B in
> kexec_jump_back_entry of kernel A too. So I think in
> kexec_jump_back_entry, the caller's stack should be checked to get
> re-entry point of peer. And the stack state is different depend on where
> come from, from relocate_new_kernel() or return.

Yes.

Any conditional logic needs to be in purgatory or a similar trampoline.

Eric