[PATCH] Specify the arch on kexec_unload.

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Mon May 26 10:46:58 EDT 2008


This fixes the problem in kexec-tools that the patch
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/685027 tries to fix in kernel.

The fix in userspace is correct.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de>
---
 kexec/kexec.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
index 096fa4f..1550d68 100644
--- a/kexec/kexec.c
+++ b/kexec/kexec.c
@@ -702,6 +702,14 @@ static int my_load(const char *type, int fileind, int argc, char **argv,
 int k_unload (unsigned long kexec_flags)
 {
 	int result;
+	long native_arch;
+
+	/* set the arch */
+	native_arch = physical_arch();
+	if (native_arch < 0) {
+		return -1;
+	}
+	kexec_flags |= native_arch;
 
 	result = kexec_load(NULL, 0, NULL, kexec_flags);
 	if (result != 0) {
-- 
1.5.4.5




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