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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 10:34 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:28:41AM -0500, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
>> "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 ...
> Make sure to explain your terminology:
>
> $ git grep -rE "chained.*kexec"
> $
>
> and there's nothing "chained" about it - you're simply kexec-ing in
> a loop.
>
> Please don't make it sound more complicated than it is.

I have posted another version of this patch series (v6) with 
restructured and updated commit message for this patch, so please review 
this v6 series.

Thanks, Ashish