From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vgoyal@redhat.com (Vivek Goyal) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:48:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 6/7] arm64/kexec: Add core kexec support In-Reply-To: <1412707320.32313.100.camel@smoke> References: <471af24b7de659a30a5941e793634bffec380cb9.1411604443.git.geoff@infradead.org> <20140930181840.GA24153@redhat.com> <1412106877.6630.45.camel@smoke> <20141001145602.GB13689@redhat.com> <1412361303.32313.24.camel@smoke> <20141007134450.GE27464@redhat.com> <1412707320.32313.100.camel@smoke> Message-ID: <20141007184813.GJ27464@redhat.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 11:42:00AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > Hi Vivek, > > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 09:44 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > So as Mark and I discussed need of purgatory code in other mails, are you > > plannign to enable purgatory on arm64. > > Adding purgatory code to arm64 is low priority, and I currently > have no plan to do that. Users are asking for kdump, and proper > UEFI support, so that is what I will work towards. kdump will make sure of purgatory too. And there does not seem to be any logic which verifies the checksums of loaded segments hence reducing the reliability of kdump operation. So I think fixing the purgatory part here is a must. It leads to better design as well as improved reliability for kexec/kdump operations. Thanks Vivek