From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from kirsty.vergenet.net ([202.4.237.240]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1f955m-0006iw-Bj for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:39:06 +0000 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:38:45 +0200 From: Simon Horman Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kexec: Add --no-checks option Message-ID: <20180419083845.qmdol6a5xm57vry7@verge.net.au> References: <1445469125.30908.105.camel@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Geoff Levand Cc: James Morse , Kostiantyn Iarmak , kexec@lists.infradead.org, Petitboot@lists.ozlabs.org On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:30:48AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > Add a new option --no-checks to kexec that allows for a fast > reboot by avoiding the purgatory integrity checks. This option is > intended for use by kexec based bootloaders that load a new > image and then immediately transfer control to it. > > Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand > --- > Hi Simon, > > On 10/21/2015 04:12 PM, Geoff Levand wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > > > It was reported that on some systems where purgatory is running > > without caches enabled the sha256 calculations would take several > > minutes. For bootloaders that just load a new image and > > immediately jump into it the loss of the integrity check is worth > > the increase in boot speed. Please consider. > > There seems to be continued interest in faster kexec re-boot times > on arm64 systems so I rebased my old patch and renamed the > option from '--lite' to '--no-checks'. Please consider. Thanks, applied. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec