Re: [PATCH 3/3 v4] x86/kdump: clean up all the code related to the backup region

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:43:47PM +0800, Lianbo Jiang wrote:
> When the crashkernel kernel command line option is specified, the
> low 1MiB memory will always be reserved, which makes that the memory
> allocated later won't fall into the low 1MiB area, thereby, it's not
> necessary to create a backup region and also no need to copy the first
> 640k content to a backup region.
> 
> Currently, the code related to the backup region can be safely removed,
> so lets clean up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h       | 10 ----
>  arch/x86/include/asm/purgatory.h   | 10 ----
>  arch/x86/kernel/crash.c            | 87 ++++--------------------------
>  arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 47 ----------------
>  arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c     | 19 -------
>  5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)

That's a diffstat one cannot object to nowadays. :)

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    Boris.

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