problems in loading capture kernel

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:46:53PM -0500, Soumendu Satapathy wrote:
> Hi Vivek ,
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> I am having some problems to load the capture kernel.
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> The following is the error. I am using a x86_64 box. I am using 2.6.27
> linux kernel for both the first kernel and the capture kernel. The
> capture kenel I have configured with CONFIG_SMP=n.
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> maxcpus=1.
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> kexec_load failed: Cannot assign requested address  99
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This looks little odd. Where is this address "99" coming from?

Few things.

- Have you reserved the space for second kernel?
- Have you compiled kernel as relocatable one or built a second kernel
  and trying to load vmlinux.
- What was the last working version or setup of kdump in your environment.

I would begin at running gdb at kexec to figure out where this seemingly
bad address "99" coming from.

CCing kexec mailing list, in case somebody has seen similar message.

Thanks
Vivek

> entry       = 0x92550 flags = 1
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> nr_segments = 4
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> segment[0].buf   = 0xb75b40
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> segment[0].bufsz = 2e77
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> segment[0].mem   = 0x8f000
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> segment[0].memsz = 3000
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> segment[1].buf   = 0xb6e8d0
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> segment[1].bufsz = 7100
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> segment[1].mem   = 0x92000
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> segment[1].memsz = 9000
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> segment[2].buf   = 0x7f5aab6c4e10
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> segment[2].bufsz = 3159d0
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> segment[2].mem   = 0x100000
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> segment[2].memsz = 316000
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> segment[3].buf   = 0x7f5aabd6c010
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> segment[3].bufsz = 13b153
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> segment[3].mem   = 0x7fec4000
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> segment[3].memsz = 13c000
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> Can you please provide some inputs ?
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> thanks
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> Soumendu S Satapathy
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