Hi, Geoff On 10/22/15 at 11:57am, Geoff Levand wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 11:17 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > On 10/21/15 at 04:12pm, Geoff Levand wrote: > > > Add a new option --lite to kexec that allows for a fast reboot > > > by avoiding the purgatory integrity checks. This option is > > > intended for use by kexec based bootloaders that load a new > > > image and then immediately transfer control to it. > > > > I think Vivek was rejecting this --lite since kdump need the purgatory > > integrity checks. Ccing him. > > As stated, this is not intended for use by kdump. > > This is an optional feature. It does not remove the integrity > checks, but provides the user a way to bypass them if they so > desire. Problem is why they so desire to skip purgatory? what is the background? If the only problem is the performace issue without cache enabled then I think it is not a strong one. We have a design to verify the image and it works why can't we maintain it and fix the issue instead of introducing the --lite? Thanks Dave
