Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec firmware support

Daniel Kiper [off-list ref] writes:

Some kexec/kdump implementations (e.g. Xen PVOPS) could not use default
Linux infrastructure and require some support from firmware and/or hypervisor.
To cope with that problem kexec firmware infrastructure was introduced.
It allows a developer to use all kexec/kdump features of given firmware
or hypervisor.

As this stands this patch is wrong.

You need to pass an additional flag from userspace through /sbin/kexec
that says load the kexec image in the firmware.  A global variable here
is not ok.

As I understand it you are loading a kexec on xen panic image.  Which
is semantically different from a kexec on linux panic image.  It is not
ok to do have a silly global variable kexec_use_firmware.

Furthermore it is not ok to have a conditional code outside of header
files.

Eric