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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:28:41 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] efi/x86: skip efi_arch_mem_reserve() in case of
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On 4/26/2024 10:22 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 09:47:02AM -0500, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
>> I should have mentioned *chained* guest kexec above instead of nested guest
>> kexec.
> What is a "chained guest kexec" now?

"Chained guest kexec" is when we are in a guest and kexec-ing into a new 
kernel and then this kernel kexecs into another and so on ...

Thanks, Ashish