Hi Dave, Thanks for the review. On Thursday 01 December 2016 10:26 AM, Dave Young wrote: > Hi Hari > > Personally I like V1 more, but split the patch 2 is easier for ia64 > people to reivew. I did basic x86 testing, it runs ok. > > On 11/25/16 at 05:24pm, Hari Bathini wrote: >> Get rid of multiple definitions of append_elf_note() & final_note() >> functions. Reuse these functions compiled under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE. >> >> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> --- >> arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c | 22 ---------------------- >> include/linux/crash_core.h | 4 ++++ >> kernel/crash_core.c | 6 +++--- >> kernel/kexec_core.c | 28 ---------------------------- >> 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c >> index 2955f35..75859a0 100644 >> --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c >> +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c >> @@ -27,28 +27,6 @@ static int kdump_freeze_monarch; >> static int kdump_on_init = 1; >> static int kdump_on_fatal_mca = 1; >> >> -static inline Elf64_Word >> -*append_elf_note(Elf64_Word *buf, char *name, unsigned type, void *data, >> - size_t data_len) >> -{ >> - struct elf_note *note = (struct elf_note *)buf; >> - note->n_namesz = strlen(name) + 1; >> - note->n_descsz = data_len; >> - note->n_type = type; >> - buf += (sizeof(*note) + 3)/4; >> - memcpy(buf, name, note->n_namesz); >> - buf += (note->n_namesz + 3)/4; >> - memcpy(buf, data, data_len); >> - buf += (data_len + 3)/4; >> - return buf; >> -} >> - >> -static void >> -final_note(void *buf) >> -{ >> - memset(buf, 0, sizeof(struct elf_note)); >> -} >> - > The above IA64 version looks better than the functions in kexec_core.c > about the Elf64_Word type usage and the simpler final_note function. Hmmm.. Is void* better over Elf64_Word* to be agnostic of Elf32 or Elf64 type? > Care to update crash_core.c to use this instead? Sure. Will resend. Thanks Hari