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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] kexec jump -v10: save/restore device state
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 05:38:19PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:

[..]
> Known issues:
>
> - Can not work with the new devices hibernation operations in
> 2.6.26-rc2-mm1 so far. Working on this now.
>
> - APIC is not put into legacy mode during kexec, so kexec may failed
> (no IRQ) if APIC is not put into legacy mode.
>
> - The suspend/resume callback of device drivers are used to put
> devices into quiescent state. This will unnecessarily (possibly
> harmfully) put devices into low power state. This is intended to be
> solved by separating device quiesce/unquiesce callback from the
> device suspend/resume callback.
>
> - Because the segment number supported by sys_kexec_load is limited,
> hibernation image with many segments may not be load. This is
> planned to be eliminated by adding a new flag to sys_kexec_load to
> make a image can be loaded with multiple sys_kexec_load invoking.
>
>

These two patches look good to me. I think once you have worked out
issues with IOAPIC and generated patches for compatibility with
new suspend/resume callbacks, these patches are good enough to get
some testing going on in -mm tree.

I will also test out -v10 very soon.

Thanks
Vivek


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