Hello Vivek, On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:31 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:55:06PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: [snip] > > --- a/kernel/kexec.c > > +++ b/kernel/kexec.c > > @@ -842,8 +842,8 @@ out: > > return result; > > } > > > > -static int kimage_load_crash_segment(struct kimage *image, > > - struct kexec_segment *segment) > > +int __weak kimage_load_crash_segment(struct kimage *image, > > + struct kexec_segment *segment) > > A comment here why we are making it weak should help in increasing > the code readability. What about the following: /* * Load crash segment into memory. Architecture code can override this * function. E.g. this is necessary for architectures that do not * create page tables for crashkernel memory. */ int __weak kimage_load_crash_segment(struct kimage *image, Michael