On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:49:48AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 17.04.17 at 21:09, <eric.devol...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > The spinlock in kexec_swap_images() was removed as
> > this function is only reachable on the kexec hypercall, which is
> > now protected at the top-level in do_kexec_op_internal(),
> > thus the local spinlock is no longer necessary.
>
> But perhaps leave an ASSERT() there, making sure the in-hypercall
> flag is set?

I am not sure why but if at all I think that we should also consider
other key kexec functions then. Or put ASSERT() into do_kexec_op_internal()
just before "switch ( op )".

Daniel

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