Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:50:49 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was
 Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:56:09 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i'm also wondering - what would be the easiest way to integrate kexec 
> > into an automated test environment. If i have a bzImage kernel, is kexec 
> > still supposed to work? Could i for example do a reboot into a new 
> > (kexec-enabled) kernel via kexec in essence?
> 
> My daily/nightly kernel test runs use kexec to boot the test kernel.
> Well, did thru 2.6.24-rc6-git9, but they fail after that.
> Hopefully this patch fixes things.

The patch in question is not in mainline, it's in the mm branch of
x86.git. So the problem in mainline is a different one. Could you
bisect it please ?

Thanks,

	tglx
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