[PATCH] kexec/ppc64: leverage kexec_file_load support
Thiago Jung Bauermann
bauerman at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Mar 19 11:57:11 PDT 2018
Hello Hari,
Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> PPC64 kernel now supports kexec_file_load system call. Leverage it by
> enabling that support here. Note that loading crash kernel with this
> system call is not yet supported in the kernel and trying to load one
> will fail with '-ENOTSUPP' error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> kexec/kexec-syscall.h | 3 +
> 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+)
Thanks for implementing this! Looks good to me, just one nit below.
Regardless of that:
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c b/kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c
> index ddd3de8..2742cd6 100644
> --- a/kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c
> +++ b/kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c
<snip>
> @@ -117,6 +196,9 @@ int elf_ppc64_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
> uint32_t my_run_at_load;
> unsigned int slave_code[256/sizeof (unsigned int)], master_entry;
>
> + if (info->file_mode)
> + return elf_ppc64_load_file(argc, argv, info);
> +
> /* See options.h -- add any more there, too. */
> static const struct option options[] = {
> KEXEC_ARCH_OPTIONS
This is placing executable code between variable declarations. It may be
fine for gcc but it's more idiomatic C to put it after all variable
declarations. But perhaps the kexec-tools style is fine with it?
--
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center
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