[PATCH 2/3] kdumpctl: Use kexec file based mode to unload kdump kernel

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Fri Sep 5 11:48:52 UTC 2014


On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 10:16:10AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 09/03/14 at 12:07pm, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Currently old kexec syscall denies unloading a kernel if secureboot is enabled.
> > I think this is not right behavior and should be changed. But for now, use
> > new syscall if secureboot is enabled and that allows unloading kernel.
> 
> We need to make sure the new syscall is in latest Fedora kernel, then we can add
> this patch in kexec-tools.

It is already there in latest fedora kernels. So let us commit this patch.

Thanks
Vivek


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