kexec -p loads

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:34:13PM -0500, Cliff Wickman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:36:22AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 05:30:35PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > > * Vivek Goyal [2008-08-27 11:28]:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I have this debugging output from my kexec:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > cpw: elf_x86_64_load returning entry:0x1550
> > > > > > > cpw: after call to file_type[i].load: nr_segments:6 entry:0x1550
> > > > > > > kexec_load: entry = 0x1550 flags = 1
> > > > > > > nr_segments = 6
> > > > > > > segment[0].buf   = 0x5237a0
> > > > > > > segment[0].bufsz = 7100
> > > > > > > segment[0].mem   = 0x1000
> > > > > > > segment[0].memsz = 9000
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > segment[1].buf   = 0x52aaf0
> > > > > > > segment[1].bufsz = 1000
> > > > > > > segment[1].mem   = 0xa000
> > > > > > > segment[1].memsz = 1000
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I think above two segments are not being loaded at right place. Looks like
> > > > > > kexec-tools decided to load first one at physical address 0x1000 and other at
> > > > > > physical address 0xa000. For crash kernel this is not right. It should
> > > > > > come out of reserved memory area and that's why you are encountering the
> > > > > > error.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Relocatability in ELF image never worked on x86_64 because of GDB but
> > > > > (so the binary was marked as ET_EXEC instead of ET_DYN).
> > > > > 
> > > > > You have to use bzImage for kdump in any case.
> > > > 
> > > > True that vmlinux is not relocatable. But one can always compile the
> > > > vmlinux for a fixed physical address (Address in reserved region) and then
> > > > use it?  In this case his vmlinux seems to have been compiled for physical
> > > > address 16MB. Which should be usable if there is a reserved memory region
> > > > at 16MB.
> > > 
> > > Of course, that's true. I just thought when Cliff uses the same kernel
> > > for "kexec -l" and "kexec -p", then it's the "normal" kernel. But I
> > > didn't calculate the numbers.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Its litle tricky. I think one can always do both "kexec -l" and "kexec -p"
> > on a vmlinux which has been built for kdump (for reserved region).
> > 
> > But one can not do "kexec -p" on normal kernel vmlinux.
> > 
> > So I am assuming that Cliff is running into first case. But he can tell
> > us more. 
> > 
> > Cliff, is it same vmlinux which you use for first kernel or a different
> > vmlinux compiled for dump capture.
> 
> Sorry for the lag.  I was working on the problem and not watching my mail.
> 
> I'm using two different kernels.
> The kdump vmlinux is compiled with
> CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
> CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
> 
> I'm using  kexec-tools-1.101

This is too old  a version. Can you try the version 2.0.0. from following
link.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools.tar.bz2

Thanks
Vivek