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Revision 2103f6cba61a8b8bea3fc1b63661d830a2125e76 authored by Stephen Warren on 02 August 2013, 19:52:49 UTC, committed by Russell King on 13 August 2013, 19:23:18 UTC
Architectures should fully validate whether kexec is possible as part of
machine_kexec_prepare(), so that user-space's kexec_load() operation can
report any problems. Performing validation in machine_kexec() itself is
too late, since it is not allowed to return.

Prior to this patch, ARM's machine_kexec() was testing after-the-fact
whether machine_kexec_prepare() was able to disable all but one CPU.
Instead, modify machine_kexec_prepare() to validate all conditions
necessary for machine_kexec_prepare()'s to succeed. BUG if the validation
succeeded, yet disabling the CPUs didn't actually work.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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History
Tip revision: 2103f6cba61a8b8bea3fc1b63661d830a2125e76 authored by Stephen Warren on 02 August 2013, 19:52:49 UTC
ARM: 7807/1: kexec: validate CPU hotplug support
Tip revision: 2103f6c

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