On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 17:18:40 -0400 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 09:45:52AM +0800, Minfei Huang wrote: [snip] > I am thinking of moving kernel loading code in a separate function to > make things little simpler. Right now it is confusing. > > Can you please test attached patch. I have only compile tested it. This > is primarily doing what you are doing but in a separate function. It > seems more readable now. The patch looks good to me. What about the following patch on top to make things even more readable? --- kernel/kexec.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/kexec.c +++ b/kernel/kexec.c @@ -1236,14 +1236,18 @@ int kexec_load_disabled; static DEFINE_MUTEX(kexec_mutex); -static int __kexec_load(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry, - unsigned long nr_segments, +static int __kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments, struct kexec_segment __user * segments, unsigned long flags) { + struct kimage *image, **dest_image; unsigned long i; int result; - struct kimage *image; + + dest_image = (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) ? &kexec_crash_image : &kexec_image; + + if (nr_segments == 0) + return 0; if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) { /* @@ -1251,7 +1255,6 @@ static int __kexec_load(struct kimage ** * crashes. Free any current crash dump kernel before * we corrupt it. */ - kimage_free(xchg(&kexec_crash_image, NULL)); } @@ -1267,30 +1270,29 @@ static int __kexec_load(struct kimage ** result = machine_kexec_prepare(image); if (result) - goto out; + goto fail; for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) { result = kimage_load_segment(image, &image->segment[i]); if (result) - goto out; + goto fail; } - kimage_terminate(image); - *rimage = image; -out: + /* Install the new kernel, and uninstall the old */ + kimage_free(xchg(dest_image, image)); if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) crash_unmap_reserved_pages(); - - /* Free image if there was an error */ - if (result) - kimage_free(image); + return 0; +fail: + if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) + crash_unmap_reserved_pages(); + kimage_free(image); return result; } SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments, struct kexec_segment __user *, segments, unsigned long, flags) { - struct kimage **dest_image, *image; int result; /* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */ @@ -1315,9 +1317,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned lon if (nr_segments > KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX) return -EINVAL; - image = NULL; - result = 0; - /* Because we write directly to the reserved memory * region when loading crash kernels we need a mutex here to * prevent multiple crash kernels from attempting to load @@ -1329,24 +1328,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned lon if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) return -EBUSY; - dest_image = &kexec_image; - if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) - dest_image = &kexec_crash_image; - /* Load new kernel */ - if (nr_segments > 0) { - result = __kexec_load(&image, entry, nr_segments, segments, - flags); - if (result) - goto out; - } - - /* Install the new kernel, and Uninstall the old */ - image = xchg(dest_image, image); - -out: + result = __kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, segments, flags); mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); - kimage_free(image); return result; }