Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] kexec: keep the next kernel off hardware-poisoned pages

Breno Leitao <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.kexec,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Bradley,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 12:36:59PM +0100, Bradley Morgan wrote:
> On 12 August 2026 12:31:50 BST, Breno Leitao <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Changes in v6:
> >- Split the pre-existing top-down underflow out into its own patch, and
> >  drop the "if (poison < kbuf->memsz)" guard from the hwpoison hunk now
> >  that the loop bail-out covers it. (Mike Rapoport, Sashiko)

<snip>

> >- Link to v5: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
> 
> This is a two patch series with one patch, why?

This is a patch series with _two_ patches, isn't it?

	[PATCH v6 1/2] kexec_file: stop the top-down search before it underflows
	[PATCH v6 2/2] kexec: keep the next kernel off hardware-poisoned pages

If you asking why it was split, we decided to split the fix into
a separate patch, and keep the "feature" in separate patch. The
discussion happened in

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