[RFC v3 PATCH 3/5] powrepc/crash hp: update kimage struct

[Sourabh Jain]

Hello Eric,

On 24/03/22 00:02, Eric DeVolder wrote:
>
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> On 3/21/22 03:04, Sourabh Jain wrote:
>> Two new members fdt_index and fdt_index_valid are added in kimage_arch
>> struct to track the FDT kexec segment. These new members of kimage_arch
>> struct will help the crash hotplug handler to easily access the FDT
>> segment from the kexec segment array. Otherwise, we have to loop through
>> all kexec segments to find the FDT segments.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h | 2 ++
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h 
>> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
>> index e1288826e22e..19c2cab6a880 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
>> @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ extern const struct kexec_file_ops kexec_elf64_ops;
>>   struct kimage_arch {
>>       struct crash_mem *exclude_ranges;
>>   +    int fdt_index;
>> +    bool fdt_index_valid;
>>       unsigned long backup_start;
>>       void *backup_buf;
>>       void *fdt;
>>
>
> Question, for the kexec_file_load scenario, is there a need to have 
> the fdt_index segment excluded by kexec_calculate_store_digests() ?

On PowerPC, SHA verification is not done for kexec_file_load system 
call, so we might not need to exclude the FDT segment.

Thanks for the review.

- Sourabh Jain