Re: kexec: Clearing registers just before jumping into purgatory

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Oct 11 2013 - 11:48:38 EST


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:44:50AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:

> Just Curious. How is it useful. IOW, what's your use case of booting a new
> kernel and then jumping back.

I'm kexecing into a kernel with a modified /dev/mem, modifying the
original kernel and then jumping back into it.

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