Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:27:44 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] [kexec-tools] Pass vmcoreinfo's address and size |
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:16:19 +0900 "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> 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.
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