[PATCH 2/2] ppc64: Add a flag to tell the kernel it's booting from kexec

[Scott Wood]

On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 12:51 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 13:59 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 14:57 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > It needs to know this because the SMP release mechanism for Freescale
> > > book3e is different from when booting with normal hardware.  In theory
> > > we could simulate the normal spin table mechanism, but not (easily) at
> > > the addresses U-Boot put in the device tree -- so there'd need to be
> > > even more communication between the kernel and kexec to set that up.
> > > Since there's already a similar flag being set (for kdump only), this
> > > seemed like a reasonable approach.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> > > ---
> > >  kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> > >  kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-ppc64.h     |  2 ++
> > >  purgatory/arch/ppc64/v2wrap.S      | 11 +++++++++++
> > >  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Any comment on these two patches?
> 
> We should probably reserve 0x58 in the kernel's head_64.S too?

That's done in http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/497417/

Or do you mean that you want the kernel change to go in before the userspace 
change?

-Scott