On Thu, 2014-11-12 at 16:44:54 UTC, Hari Bathini wrote:

In LE kernel, we currently have a hack for kexec that resets the exception endian
before starting a new kernel as the kernel that is loaded could be a big endian
or a little endian kernel. In kdump case, resetting exception endian fails when
one or more cpus is disabled. But in case of kdump, we can conveniently ignore
resetting endianess as crashkernel is always of same endianess as primary kernel.

No, it's not guaranteed to be the same endianess.

That tends to be what people do in practice, but it's not an assumption you can
hard code.

cheers