On 08/30/2014 03:02 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Brian King <brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > >> On 08/04/2014 09:21 AM, Brian King wrote: >>> On 07/28/2014 03:28 PM, Brian King wrote: >>>> >>>> Export kexec_in_progress for use by device drivers and other modules >>>> to optimize kexec boot. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com> >>>> --- >>>> >>>> kernel/kexec.c | 2 ++ >>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) >>>> >>>> diff -puN kernel/kexec.c~kexec_export_in_prog kernel/kexec.c >>>> --- linux/kernel/kexec.c~kexec_export_in_prog 2014-07-23 17:05:24.851887935 -0500 >>>> +++ linux-bjking1/kernel/kexec.c 2014-07-23 17:05:24.856887970 -0500 >>>> @@ -1716,3 +1716,5 @@ int kernel_kexec(void) >>>> mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); >>>> return error; >>>> } >>>> + >>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kexec_in_progress); >>> >>> Eric, >>> >>> Can I get an ack on this so we can take this entire series through the SCSI tree? >> >> Eric, >> >> Any issues with this patch? > > No huge issues except that patch description is largely uniformitive and > actually wrong. kexec_in_progress is never set at boot/kernel startup. Good point. How about this instead: Export kexec_in_progress for use by device drivers and other modules to optimize shutdown handling during kexec. Thanks, Brian -- Brian King Power Linux I/O IBM Linux Technology Center
