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From: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@canonical.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
	hughd@google.com, luto@kernel.org
Subject: Re: KAISER: kexec triggers a warning
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 08:38:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171201163850.GC26327@u40b0340c692b58f6553c.ant.amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171201153713.apdoi6em7c4iynlr@pd.tnic>

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 04:37:13PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 07:31:36AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > The only question is whether we want to preserve _some_ kind of warning
> > there, or just axe it entirely.
> 
> Right, my fear would be if we keep it, then we'd have to go and
> whitelist or somehow track those users which are an exception...
> 
> OTOH, it might be prudent to have a warning to catch such abnormal
> situations...

But a warn like that on the kexec/kdump path can be scary for regular / unware users,
specially considering that kexec is almost common place for regular reboot.

> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
> Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
> 

-- 
All the best,
Eduardo Valentin

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-01 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-01 13:52 Juerg Haefliger
2017-12-01 15:18 ` Baoquan He
2017-12-01 15:27   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-12-04  1:52     ` Baoquan He
2017-12-01 15:31 ` Dave Hansen
2017-12-01 15:37   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-12-01 16:38     ` Eduardo Valentin [this message]
2017-12-01 17:03       ` Borislav Petkov

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