Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2008-01-07 Thread Huang, Ying
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 15:49 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > Why should we exchange backup page map information between two kernels? > > > What data has been swapped and how to restore it back should be known > > > to the kernel who did it. I think the memory info and address of ELF > > > headers we

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2008-01-06 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:42:26PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 14:26 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > [...] > > Ok. But If I copy the /proc/vmcore to disk. Then I reboot the system > > and boot back into a kernel which is supposed to resume the hibernated > > image. This kernel wi

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2008-01-03 Thread Huang, Ying
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 14:26 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: [...] > Ok. But If I copy the /proc/vmcore to disk. Then I reboot the system > and boot back into a kernel which is supposed to resume the hibernated > image. This kernel will not have any command line option jump_back_entry. > I need to resum

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-31 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 16:33 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:33:19PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > > > This patchset provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements > > > the following features: > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-28 Thread Huang, Ying
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 16:33 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:33:19PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > > This patchset provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements > > the following features: > > > > - Backup/restore memory used both by the original kernel and the > > ke

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-28 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:33:19PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > This patchset provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements > the following features: > > - Backup/restore memory used both by the original kernel and the > kexeced kernel. > > - Jumping between the original kernel and the k

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-27 Thread Huang, Ying
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 13:12 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 10:33:13AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 20:57 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > [...] > > > > 9. Now, you are in the original kernel again. You can read/write the > > > >memory image of kexeced ke

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-27 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 10:33:13AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 20:57 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > [...] > > > 9. Now, you are in the original kernel again. You can read/write the > > >memory image of kexeced kernel via /proc/kimgcore. > > > > > > > Why do we need two inte

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-26 Thread Huang, Ying
On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 20:57 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: [...] > > 9. Now, you are in the original kernel again. You can read/write the > >memory image of kexeced kernel via /proc/kimgcore. > > > > Why do we need two interfaces, /proc/vmcore and /proc/kimgcore? Can't > we have just one say /proc

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-26 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:33:19PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: [..] > The following user-space tools can be used with kexec jump. > > 1. kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches >and the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL: >source: > http

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-21 Thread Huang, Ying
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 19:35 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > Huang, Ying wrote: > > This patchset provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements > > the following features: > > > > - Backup/restore memory used both by the original kernel and the > > kexeced kernel. > > Why the k

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-21 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. Huang, Ying wrote: > This patchset provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements > the following features: > > - Backup/restore memory used both by the original kernel and the > kexeced kernel. Why the kexeced kernel as well? [...] > The features of this patchset can be used as f

[PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-20 Thread Huang, Ying
This patchset provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements the following features: - Backup/restore memory used both by the original kernel and the kexeced kernel. - Jumping between the original kernel and the kexeced kernel. - Read/write memory image of the kexeced kernel in the orig