In place kexec

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/29/2010 11:06 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Thinking about this I am a bit surprised that you would find
> DMA left on from a disk driver.  Historically disks have been
> pretty good about shutting off in this scenario.
> 
> Added to that typically we unmount all filesystems.
> 
> Calling rmmod on the driver before the final kexec --exec
> could be interesting, and drivers much more reliably implement
> .remove than .shutdown.
> 
> Network drivers are more likely to be a problem, but we should be
> downing all of the network interfaces before something happens.
> 
> All of which is to say kexec-in-place has generally been a lot
> less hassle, because it is so similar to the normal case.
> 

In particular, the supposed corruption comes from the "firmware logging"
feature in the qla2xxx driver.  I'd really like to understand if this is
a kexec problem or a qla2xxx problem.
	
	-hpa