[PATCH v20 00/14] arm64 kexec kernel patches

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Tue Jun 28 17:54:15 PDT 2016


Hi Catalin,

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 06:00:39PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 05:54:47PM +0000, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > AKASHI Takahiro (7):
> >       arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel
> >       arm64: limit memory regions based on DT property, usable-memory
> >       arm64: kdump: implement machine_crash_shutdown()
> >       arm64: kdump: add kdump support
> >       arm64: kdump: add VMCOREINFO's for user-space coredump tools
> >       arm64: kdump: enable kdump in the arm64 defconfig
> >       arm64: kdump: update a kernel doc
> > 
> > Geoff Levand (4):
> >       arm64: Add back cpu reset routines
> >       arm64/kexec: Add core kexec support
> >       arm64/kexec: Enable kexec in the arm64 defconfig
> >       arm64/kexec: Add pr_debug output
> > 
> > James Morse (3):
> >       arm64: hibernate: Don't hibernate on systems with stuck CPUs
> >       arm64: smp: Add function to determine if cpus are stuck in the kernel
> >       Documentation: dt: usable-memory and elfcorehdr nodes for arm64 kexec
> 
> I dropped patch 1 (hibernate), cherry-picked patch 2 from mainline
> ("cpus stuck in the kernel", already pushed by Will to 4.7-rc5) and
> merged patches 3-6, with the amendments that James mentioned.
> 
> The kdump patches, including the "Documentation" one from James require
> more review, testing and acks by the corresponding maintainers (kdump,
> DT).

I see what you mean, but even for Geoff's kexec part, the maintainer
(Eric) have not given his ack.

> You also don't seem to have added a s-o-b for those patches (since
> you are submitting them; unless you plan to let Akashi-san submit them
> in the future).

Basically Geoff has not reviewed nor tested kdump part, and
so I'm not sure that adding his s-o-b is appropriate.
Anyhow, I will post my future version of kdump by myself as
kexec has been queued in for-next/core.

Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI

> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Catalin



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