Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:15:47 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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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 17:50:49 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> 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 ?

Ugh.  As happens during demos, this (kexec failure) won't happen for me
when I want it to.  I'll keep an eye out for it...


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