From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>, "kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>, Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>, "tony.luck@intel.com" <tony.luck@intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>, "hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>, "dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net" <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>, Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Replace a function call chain of kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC) with static function calls Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:28:06 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20110716162805.GA13127@srcf.ucam.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <m14o2mjj5l.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 09:16:06AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > What is going on with EFI support? We are still making efi calls in > virtual mode, and we don't have the one unified identity mapped physical > page table that hpa and I think others were working a while back. Even > if because of bugs we need to transition EFI to virtual mode we can > still set physical to virtual so we don't have to deal with the nonsense. No, we can't. It doesn't work. > Can we please make our EFI support ask the minimal from EFI before > adding lots more to it? No. > Am I wrong in thinking that the core motivation behind this patch is > that our EFI support sucks and thus kdump on EFI does not work on some > platforms? Yes, you are. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net" <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>, "tony.luck@intel.com" <tony.luck@intel.com>, "hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>, "kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>, Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>, Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Replace a function call chain of kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC) with static function calls Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:28:06 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20110716162805.GA13127@srcf.ucam.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <m14o2mjj5l.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 09:16:06AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > What is going on with EFI support? We are still making efi calls in > virtual mode, and we don't have the one unified identity mapped physical > page table that hpa and I think others were working a while back. Even > if because of bugs we need to transition EFI to virtual mode we can > still set physical to virtual so we don't have to deal with the nonsense. No, we can't. It doesn't work. > Can we please make our EFI support ask the minimal from EFI before > adding lots more to it? No. > Am I wrong in thinking that the core motivation behind this patch is > that our EFI support sucks and thus kdump on EFI does not work on some > platforms? Yes, you are. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-16 16:28 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2011-07-11 15:47 [RFC][PATCH] Replace a function call chain of kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC) with static function calls Seiji Aguchi 2011-07-11 15:47 ` Seiji Aguchi 2011-07-11 17:27 ` Matthew Garrett 2011-07-11 17:27 ` Matthew Garrett 2011-07-11 22:07 ` Vivek Goyal 2011-07-11 22:07 ` Vivek Goyal 2011-07-13 8:37 ` Américo Wang 2011-07-13 8:37 ` Américo Wang 2011-07-16 16:16 ` Eric W. Biederman 2011-07-16 16:16 ` Eric W. Biederman 2011-07-16 16:28 ` Matthew Garrett [this message] 2011-07-16 16:28 ` Matthew Garrett 2011-07-16 20:11 ` Eric W. Biederman 2011-07-16 20:11 ` Eric W. Biederman 2011-07-16 20:27 ` Matthew Garrett 2011-07-16 20:27 ` Matthew Garrett 2011-07-18 11:43 ` Vivek Goyal 2011-07-18 11:43 ` Vivek Goyal
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