Re: [PATCH][CFT] kexec (rewrite) for 2.5.52

Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com)
Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:05:19 +0530


On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:07:52AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I have recently taken the time to dig through the internals of
> kexec to see if I could make my code any simpler and have managed
> to trim off about 100 lines, and have made the code much more
> obviously correct.
>
> Anyway, I would love to know in what entertaining ways this code blows
> up, or if I get lucky and it doesn't. I probably will not reply back
> in a timely manner as I am off to visit my parents, for Christmas and
> New Years.
>

The good news is that it worked for me. Not only that, I have just
managed to get lkcd to save a dump in memory and then write it out
to disk after a kexec soft boot ! I haven't tried real panic cases yet
(which probably won't work rightaway :) ) and have testing and
tuning to do. But kexec seems to be looking good.

Have a wonderful new year.

Regards
Suparna
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