Re: [Fastboot] Re: Kexec on 2.5.59 problems ?

From: Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 23:29:59 EST


Andy Pfiffer <andyp@osdl.org> writes:

> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:04, Andy Pfiffer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 23:21, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > The following patch from Anton Blanchard's WIP kexec tree
> > > for ppc64 seems to fix this for me. It just does a use_mm()
> > > (routine from fs/aio.c) instead of switch_mm().
> > >
> > > Andy could you try this out and see if it helps ?
> > >
> > > The other change in Anton's tree that we should probably
> > > include uses a separate kexec_mm rather than init_mm
> > > for the mapping.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Suparna
> >
> > Will do. --Andy
>
> Answer: hard lock-up after decompressing the kernel. I'll see if I can
> get anything meaningful out of the system before it wedges.

Which kernel is wedging. The kexec'd kernel. Or the kernel with
the patch?

Eric
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