On 9/28/23 10:35, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 28.09.23 15:22, Dave Hansen wrote: >> On 9/27/23 09:13, Stanislav Kinsburskii wrote: >>> Once deposited, these pages can't be accessed by Linux anymore and thus >>> must be preserved in "used" state across kexec, as hypervisor state is >>> unware of kexec. >> >> If Linux can't access them, they're not RAM any more. I'd much rather >> remove them from the memory map and move on with life rather than >> implement a bunch of new ABI that's got to be handed across kernels. > > The motivation of handling kexec (faster?) in a hyper-v domain doesn't > sound particularly compelling got me for such features. If you inflated > memory, just don't allow to kexec. It's been broken for years IIUC. That's a good point. What prevents deflating before kexec? _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
