On Fri, 2018-04-27 at 06:23:18 UTC, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mah...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Unregister fadump on kexec down path otherwise the fadump registration in > new kexec-ed kernel complains that fadump is already registered. This > makes new kernel to continue using fadump registered by previous kernel > which may lead to invalid vmcore generation. Hence this patch fixes this > issue by un-registering fadump in fadump_cleanup() which is called during > kexec path so that new kernel can register fadump with new valid values. > > Fixes: b500afff11f6 ("fadump: Invalidate registration and release reserved > memory for general use.") > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mah...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/722cde76d68e8cc4f3de42e71c82fd cheers