[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] fix reboot fail on kexec for CBE

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 4 11:21:23 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 07:48 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Akira Tsukamoto wrote:
> > [PATCH] fix reboot fail on kexec for CBE
> > 
> > This patch adds additional TLB flush for dump-capture kernel to 
> > successfully reboot triggered by kexec. 
> > 
> > The same issue might exist on PS3 platform but I have not tried 
> > yet and the patch only applies to CBE platform.
> > I really appreciate if somebody could brush up this patch, as such 
> > using magic constant value inside the code.
> 
> I am now working on kexec reboot support for the PS3, and I'll
> consider this patch.  Does this only effect kdump, or also for
> a 'normal' kexec reboot?

I doubt this patch will have any use on a hypervisor platform...

Ben.





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