[PATCH RFC 0/6] Various fixes for purgatory and ARM64

[Dave Young]

On 04/16/15 at 10:17pm, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> These patches can be applied on top of Geoff's Kexec [1] and Takahiro's
> Kdump [2] patches and are available in my tree [3].
> 
> First two patches are for purgatory. 1st patch is a very important fix
> for sha verification.  2nd patch is good to have.
> 
> Rest all patches are fixes and addon for ARM64.
> 
> These patchset adds three extra command line options for ARM64.
> 
>  --page-offset: Needed for binary image only. Default value is
> 0xfffffe0000000000.
> 
>  --port-lsr: It is UART's Line status register address. Normally for a
> UART based on 8250, 16450 or 16550 should have value as --port's value +
> 0x14.
> 
>  --port-lsr-val: It is the SET value of LSR register for TX buffer to be
> empty. Normally for above UARTs it should be 0x60 
> 
> [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/kexec-tools.git
> : master
> [2] git://git.linaro.org/people/takahiro.akashi/kexec-tools.git :
> kdump/v0.10
> [3] https://github.com/pratyushanand/kexec-tools.git : master
> (6c8a63f701e9)
> 
> Pratyush Anand (6):
>   purgatory: Fix memcmp for src address increment
>   purgatory: No need to sha256 update if ptr->len is zero
>   arm64: allocate memory for other segments after kernel
>   arm64: support reuse-cmdline option
>   arm64: Add support for binary image
>   arm64: wait for transmit completion before next character transmission
> 
>  kexec/arch/arm64/crashdump-arm64.c      |  3 +-
>  kexec/arch/arm64/crashdump-arm64.h      |  1 +
>  kexec/arch/arm64/include/arch/options.h | 21 +++++++++++--
>  kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c          | 28 ++++++++++++++++-
>  kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h          |  2 ++
>  kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-image-arm64.c    | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  purgatory/arch/arm64/entry.S            | 10 ++++++
>  purgatory/arch/arm64/purgatory-arm64.c  | 22 +++++++++++++-
>  purgatory/purgatory.c                   |  2 ++
>  purgatory/string.c                      |  2 ++
>  10 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 
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Hi, Pratyush

For these kexec-tools patches, it is not necessary to cc Fedora kexec list.
The Fedora kexec list is only for Fedora part, mostly kdump initrd related
code. Also it is subscriber only list so it will be unconvinient for other
people to review upstream patches.

Thanks
Dave