[PATCH v19 05/13] of: Add a common kexec FDT setup function
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
nramas at linux.microsoft.com
Tue Feb 23 20:57:36 EST 2021
On 2/23/21 5:20 PM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>
> Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas at linux.microsoft.com> writes:
>
>> From: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
>>
>> Both arm64 and powerpc do essentially the same FDT /chosen setup for
>> kexec. The differences are either omissions that arm64 should have
>> or additional properties that will be ignored. The setup code can be
>> combined and shared by both powerpc and arm64.
>>
>> The differences relative to the arm64 version:
>> - If /chosen doesn't exist, it will be created (should never happen).
>> - Any old dtb and initrd reserved memory will be released.
>> - The new initrd and elfcorehdr are marked reserved.
>> - "linux,booted-from-kexec" is set.
>>
>> The differences relative to the powerpc version:
>> - "kaslr-seed" and "rng-seed" may be set.
>> - "linux,elfcorehdr" is set.
>> - Any existing "linux,usable-memory-range" is removed.
>>
>> Combine the code for setting up the /chosen node in the FDT and updating
>> the memory reservation for kexec, for powerpc and arm64, in
>> of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt() and move it to "drivers/of/kexec.c".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas at linux.microsoft.com>
>> Fixes: 33488dc4d61f ("of: Add a common kexec FDT setup function")
>
> A patch cannot fix itself. The world would be a much better place if it
> could. :-)
:)
>
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/of/Makefile | 6 +
>> drivers/of/kexec.c | 265 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/linux/of.h | 5 +
>> 3 files changed, 276 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/of/kexec.c
>
> With that fixed:
>
> Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at linux.ibm.com>
Thanks for reviewing the patches Thiago.
-lakshmi
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