[RFC] Old paca being written by firmware after kexec

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Fri Oct 7 13:59:22 EST 2005


> Ouch! Nice work hunting this down. 
> 
> I think there is an unregister vpa hcall, for a clean kexec boot perhaps
> we could have a shutdown method that calls this.

I had a look at the register vpa hcall and it can take a flag
to deregister the vpa:

flags = 101 - deregister virtual processor area

Anton



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