[PATCH] kho: try to allocate contiguous memory for kexec segments

[Pratyush Yadav]

On Tue, Jun 02 2026, Michał Cłapiński wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 6:58 PM Pratyush Yadav <pratyush at kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 01 2026, Michal Clapinski wrote:
>>
>> > This allows us to skip relocations (and maybe checksum calculation
>> > in the future).
>>
>> I'm confused. Doesn't your patch "kexec_file: skip checksum verification
>> when safe" [0] skip the checksum for KHO already? So this only skips the
>> relocations part then?
>>
>> And based on the discussion on that thread, relocations don't seem to
>> take much time. So is there a real need for this patch?
>
> I sent this patch out yesterday, then realized it wasn't going to work
> so I abandoned this approach.
> Today I sent patch [0] that skips the checksum for KHO, so this patch
> is no longer needed.

Makes sense, thanks for clarifying.

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav