Re: [PATCH] x86, kdump: Fix efi=noruntime NULL pointer dereference

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Aug 15 2018 - 00:58:11 EST


On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 11:59 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > Does this improve things, and plug the no boot hole?
>
> Would you mind to tune my patch with some acpi_rsdp checking and add
> some error message in case kexec load failure? Eg. suggest people to use
> append acpi_rsdp for noefi booting etc.

Yeah, -ENODEV is better than hanging, but not very informative.

> I'm still not very satisfied with the code cleanup..

Not surprising, I didn't like it much either (ergo interrogative).

-Mike