[PATCH 0/2] kexec_file: Load kernel at top of system RAM if required
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Sun Jan 21 08:09:57 AEDT 2024
Hello:
This series was applied to riscv/linux.git (fixes)
by Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:16:56 +0800 you wrote:
> Justification:
> ==============
> Kexec_load interface has been doing top down searching and loading
> kernel/initrd/purgtory etc to prepare for kexec reboot. In that way,
> the benefits are that it avoids to consume and fragment limited low
> memory which satisfy DMA buffer allocation and big chunk of continuous
> memory during system init; and avoids to stir with BIOS/FW reserved
> or occupied areas, or corner case handling/work around/quirk occupied
> areas when doing system init. By the way, the top-down searching and
> loading of kexec-ed kernel is done in user space utility code.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [1/2] resource: add walk_system_ram_res_rev()
(no matching commit)
- [2/2] kexec_file: Load kernel at top of system RAM if required
https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/b3ba234171cd
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