Re: [RFC PATCH] kexec, x86/boot: map systab region in identity mapping before accessing it

[Baoquan He]

On 04/26/19 at 11:58am, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 05:51:34PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > I can make a patch to add a bit into xloadflags, to indicate that this
> > is kexec-ed kernel. It can help to differentiate kexec-ed kernel from
> > kdump kernel.
> 
> From the recent snafu, the only thing we needed is to differentiate
> between the *first* kernel and the following kernel(s) which has been
> started/loaded using a kexec syscall.

OK. To make sure I got it, the loader type 0xD is enough for this, right? 

It's fine to me, we can add it later if needed. I remember there's an
issue in intel/amd iommu, in which we need differentiate between
kexec/kdump kernel, but not very sure. I will check it when I have time
to work on that.

Thanks
Baoquan