Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] ppc64/kexec_file: add support to relocate purgatory

Hari Bathini [off-list ref] writes:

Right now purgatory implementation is only minimal. But if purgatory
code is to be enhanced to copy memory to the backup region and verify
sha256 digest, relocations may have to be applied to the purgatory.
So, add support to relocate purgatory in kexec_file_load system call
by setting up TOC pointer and applying RELA relocations as needed.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted>
[lkp: In v1, 'struct mem_sym' was declared in parameter list]
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
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* Michael, can you share your opinion on the below:
    - https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1272027/
    - My intention in cover note.

It seems like a lot of complexity for little benefit.

AFAICS your final purgatory_64.c is only 36 lines, and all it does is a
single (open coded) memcpy().

It seems like we could write that in not many more lines of assembler
and avoid all this code.

What am I missing?

cheers