From: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/7] bootm: add kexec ELF support
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 13:08:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180504130851.8b5f6f69b0475b929e533e01@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180504055408.lnzhtx6tozemob4p@pengutronix.de>
On Fri, 4 May 2018 07:54:08 +0200
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 03:09:03PM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > +static int do_bootm_elf(struct image_data *data)
> > +{
> > + kexec_load_bootm_data(data);
> > +
> > + reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC, data);
> > +
> > + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> > +}
> > +
>
> I can't really judge this series. This is the only thing I stumbled
> upon: I see no reason to name the architecture specific kexec function
> 'reboot'. I would expect some kexec specific name, like arch_kexec or
> similar.
>
This reboot function is copy-n-paste from linux kernel reboot syscall (see linux/kernel/reboot.c
for details).
At the moment there is only one constant for reboot()'s first argument (LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC),
so it's reasonable to elimenate this first argument and rename function to kexec_reboot().
>
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-29 13:09 [RFC PATCH 0/7] provide ELF/KEXEC support for MIPS ath79 and malta Oleksij Rempel
2018-04-29 13:09 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] resource: add create_resource() helper function Oleksij Rempel
2018-04-29 13:09 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] filetype: add ELF type Oleksij Rempel
2018-04-29 13:09 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] bootm: add kexec ELF support Oleksij Rempel
2018-05-04 5:54 ` Sascha Hauer
2018-05-04 10:08 ` Antony Pavlov [this message]
2018-05-04 9:53 ` Oleksij Rempel
2018-05-04 13:09 ` Antony Pavlov
2018-04-29 13:09 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] MIPS: add kexec ELF loading support Oleksij Rempel
2018-04-29 13:09 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] MIPS: ath79: add kexec support Oleksij Rempel
2018-04-29 13:09 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] MIPS: malta: enable kexec Oleksij Rempel
2018-04-29 13:09 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] MIPS: configs: add KEXEC=y to atheros devices Oleksij Rempel
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