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Biederman) To: Andrew Morton Cc: Baoquan He , Russell King - ARM Linux admin , Anshuman Khandual , Catalin Marinas , Bhupesh Sharma , David Hildenbrand , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, James Morse , Will Deacon , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org References: <34274b02-60ba-eb78-eacd-6dc1146ed3cd@arm.com> <80e4d1d7-f493-3f66-f700-86f18002d692@redhat.com> <20200410121013.03b609fd572504c03a666f4a@linux-foundation.org> <20200411034414.GH2129@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> <20200411093009.GH25745@shell.armlinux.org.uk> <20200412053507.GA4247@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> <20200412080836.GM25745@shell.armlinux.org.uk> <87wo6klbw0.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20200413023701.GA20265@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> <871rorjzmc.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20200413160144.0e07c0033afc474228bc9218@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:13:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20200413160144.0e07c0033afc474228bc9218@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:01:44 -0700") Message-ID: <87tv1miohm.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-SPF: eid=1jOEru-0001V9-HH;;;mid=<87tv1miohm.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=68.227.160.95;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX18EIUyySboFEvwkJvY092/gKs+mtMsheRQ= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.227.160.95 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] kexec: Prevent removal of memory in use by a loaded kexec image X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 05 May 2016 13:38:54 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in01.mta.xmission.com) X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: Andrew Morton writes: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:15:23 -0500 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> > For 3), people can still use kexec_load and develop/fix for it, if no >> > kexec_file_load supported. But 32-bit arm should be a different one, >> > more like i386, we will leave it as is, and fix anything which could >> > break it. But people really expects to improve or add feature to it? E.g >> > in this patchset, the mem hotplug issue James raised, I assume James is >> > focusing on arm64, x86_64, but not 32-bit arm. As DavidH commented in >> > another reply, people even don't agree to continue supporting memory >> > hotplug on 32-bit system. We ever took effort to fix a memory hotplug >> > bug on i386 with a patch, but people would rather set it as BROKEN. >> >> For memory hotplug just reload. Userspace already gets good events. >> >> We should not expect anything except a panic kernel to be loaded over a >> memory hotplug event. The kexec on panic code should actually be loaded >> in a location that we don't reliquish if asked for it. > > Is that a nack for James's patchset? I have just read the end of the thread and I have the sense that the patchset had already been rejected. I will see if I can go back and read the beginning. I was mostly reacting to the idea that you could stop maintaining an interface that people are actively using because there is a newer interface. Eric