Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764393AbXJQFT4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:19:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752346AbXJQFTg (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:19:36 -0400 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:57597 "EHLO tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751032AbXJQFTe (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:19:34 -0400 Message-Id: <47159AA3.10305@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:16:19 +0900 From: "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Horman CC: Andrew Morton , Don Zickus , Neil Horman , Dan Aloni , Bernhard Walle , kexec-ml , lkml , Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [kexec-tools] Pass vmcoreinfo's address and size References: <20070822210838oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> <20070822211339oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> <20071017023305.GC6709@verge.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20071017023305.GC6709@verge.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1365 Lines: 38 Hi Simon, Simon Horman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:13:39PM +0900, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote: >> [2/3] [kexec-tools] Pass vmcoreinfo's address and size >> The patch is for kexec-tools-testing-20070330. >> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/) >> kexec command gets the address and size of the vmcoreinfo data from >> /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo, and passes them to the second kernel through >> ELF header of /proc/vmcore. When the second kernel is booting, the >> kernel gets them from the ELF header and creates vmcoreinfo's PT_NOTE >> segment into /proc/vmcore. > > Sorry for the long delay, I completely missed this patch. > > The kexec-tools change seems ok to me. What is the status of > the kernel portion of the change? The kernel portion is merged into linux-2.6.23-mm1. According to Andrew's mail "-mm merge plans for 2.6.24", its status is "The infamous misc. Will re-review and will merge basically all of them". http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0710.0/0313.html > Do you still want the kexec-tools portion applied? Yes, I hope so. Thanks Ken'ichi Ohmichi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/