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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 02/11] kexec_file: make kexec_image_post_load_cleanup_default() global
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 06:46:04PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Akashi,
>
> On 25/04/18 07:26, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > Change this function from static to global so that arm64 can implement
> > its own arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup() later using
> > kexec_image_post_load_cleanup_default().
>
> Do we need to call kexec_image_post_load_cleanup_default()? All it does is call
> the image-type fops->cleanup(), which you don't implement in this series.
>
> Is this just-in-case someone adds cleanup() later and is surprised only the
> arch-level helper is called?

Yes, we want not to miss two possibilities:
- some common clean-up code is added to kexec_image_post_load_cleanup_default()
- some format(i.e. Image)-specific clean-up code is added to fops->cleanup()

-Takahiro AKASHI

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> James

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