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Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 16:04:01 -0600 (MDT)
From: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
To: Han Gao <gaohan@iscas.ac.cn>
cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>, 
    Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>, Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>, 
    linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 
    Han Gao <rabenda.cn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: unconditionally select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
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On Wed, 20 May 2026, Han Gao wrote:

> Select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK unconditionally. kexec requires memblock
> to be kept after boot to initialize the secondary kernel. Device
> Tree platforms also need this for kexec support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Han Gao <gaohan@iscas.ac.cn>

Thanks for the patch.  If this patch is just about kexec, shouldn't 
ARCH_SELECTS_KEXEC just be changed to select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK?


- Paul