[PATCH 0/3] Enable UKI image load on x86_64

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 01:06:23PM +0000, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 10:12:35AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > Hi Pingfan,
> > 
> > On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 11:57, Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The correct kernel fd instead of UKI image fd should be
> > > passed to the syscall. On arm64, it is not a problem, but on x86_64, it
> > > is.(see commit log in 2/3)
> > >
> > > This series aims to address the above problem.
> > >
> > > Cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo at redhat.com>
> > > To: kexec at lists.infradead.org
> > >
> > > Pingfan Liu (3):
> > >   UKI: Split out the routine to create temporary fd
> > >   kexec: Create a temporary file to hold .linux section in uki_probe()
> > >   x86_64: Support UKI image format
> > 
> > After Doing a test based on this series,   I noticed the uki load will
> > not use the uki internal .cmdline for kernel command line parameters,
> > it requires people to specify cmdline with kexec.  I think this is
> > helpful for kdump to use.  But for general use it would be better to
> > do something like:
> > 
> > by default use the UKI internal cmdline
> > If one specify --command-line or --reuse-cmdline then just use the
> > user provided cmdline and ignore the UKI internal cmdline.
> > 
> > Anyway this can be improved in the future as an appending patch,  the
> > functionality works for me.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> I will plan to apply this after v2.0.30 has been released.

Thanks everyone, applied.