[PATCHv7 1/5] kexec/arm64: Simplify the code for zImage

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Mon Aug 7 06:26:49 PDT 2023


On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 21:23, Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 10:41:48AM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > Inside zimage_probe(), it uncompresses the kernel and performs some
> > check, similar to image_probe(). Taking a close look, the uncompressing
> > has already executed before the image probe is called. What is missing
> > here is to provide a fd, pointing to an uncompressed kernel image.
> >
> > This patch creates a memfd based on the result produced by
> > slurp_decompress_file(), and finally simplify the logical of the probe
> > for aarch64.
> >
> > The credit goes to the Dave Young, who contributes the original code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com>
> > Co-authored-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
>
> Dave, could I get a Signed-off-by line from you?
> Likewise for patch 2/5.

I Simon, sounds good to me, thanks!

>
> I think simply replying to the relevant emails should be sufficient.
>
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