Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761443AbXJQF3h (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:29:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751574AbXJQF33 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:29:29 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:33052 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750844AbXJQF32 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:29:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:27:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" Cc: Simon Horman , 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 Message-Id: <20071016222744.a8f4b987.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <47159AA3.10305@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> References: <20070822210838oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> <20070822211339oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> <20071017023305.GC6709@verge.net.au> <47159AA3.10305@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1414 Lines: 30 On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:16:19 +0900 "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" wrote: > 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". It's all in this evening's batch, which is going through final QA (heh) now. Is looking OK. - 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/