[RFC v3 PATCH 3/5] powrepc/crash hp: update kimage struct

[Eric DeVolder]

On 3/21/22 03:04, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> Two new members fdt_index and fdt_index_valid are added in kimage_arch
> struct to track the FDT kexec segment. These new members of kimage_arch
> struct will help the crash hotplug handler to easily access the FDT
> segment from the kexec segment array. Otherwise, we have to loop through
> all kexec segments to find the FDT segments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>

> ---
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
> index e1288826e22e..19c2cab6a880 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
> @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ extern const struct kexec_file_ops kexec_elf64_ops;
>   struct kimage_arch {
>   	struct crash_mem *exclude_ranges;
>   
> +	int fdt_index;
> +	bool fdt_index_valid;
>   	unsigned long backup_start;
>   	void *backup_buf;
>   	void *fdt;
> 

Question, for the kexec_file_load scenario, is there a need to have the fdt_index segment excluded 
by kexec_calculate_store_digests() ?