[PATCH v1 2/3] kexec: print out debugging message if required for kexec_load
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Sun Dec 14 16:32:14 PST 2025
On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:56:48 +0800 Qiang Ma <maqianga at uniontech.com> wrote:
> The commit a85ee18c7900 ("kexec_file: print out debugging message
> if required") has added general code printing in kexec_file_load(),
> but not in kexec_load().
>
> As a result, when using '-d' for the kexec_load interface,
> print nothing in the kernel space.
That doesn't sound like a thing which "kernel test robot" would detect
and report.
> Since the segments debugging message has already been printed by the
> user-space tool kexec-tools, it will not be printed here in the
> kernel space.
>
> And print out type/start/head of kimage and flags to help debug.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qiang Ma <maqianga at uniontech.com>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202510310332.6XrLe70K-lkp@intel.com/
Oh I see, that's a warning against an earlier version of this patch.
But this is labelled "v1"!
I suggest we remove this Reported-by record.
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
> if (ret)
> goto out;
>
> + kexec_dprintk("kexec_load: type:%u, start:0x%lx head:0x%lx flags:0x%lx\n",
> + image->type, image->start, image->head, flags);
> +
> /* Install the new kernel and uninstall the old */
> image = xchg(dest_image, image);
Thanks, I'll await reviewer input before proceeding with this series.
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