The issues are mentioned in patches #1 and #4. I will update kdump documentation for MIPS if the series gets accepted. Testing has been done on single core i6500/Boston with IOCU, and dual core i6500 without IOCU. Dengcheng Zhu (4): MIPS: Make play_dead() work for kexec MIPS: kexec: Let the new kernel handle all CPUs MIPS: kexec: Deprecate (relocated_)kexec_smp_wait MIPS: kexec: Do not flush system wide caches in machine_kexec() arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c | 2 +- arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c | 35 ++++++++------- arch/mips/include/asm/kexec.h | 3 +- arch/mips/include/asm/smp.h | 4 +- arch/mips/kernel/crash.c | 4 +- arch/mips/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 44 +++++++++++++----- arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/relocate_kernel.S | 39 ---------------- arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c | 11 +++-- arch/mips/kernel/smp-cps.c | 59 ++++++++++++++---------- arch/mips/loongson64/loongson-3/smp.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++----------------- 11 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4