[PATCH v4 4/6] kexec, x86: put ramdisk high for 64bit bzImage

Yinghai Lu yinghai at kernel.org
Sat Nov 24 15:47:44 EST 2012


We could put ramdisk high for bzImage on 64bit for protocol 2.12.

-v2: change ext_... handling to way that eric like.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org>
---
 kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c   |    2 ++
 kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c |   18 +++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c
index d83f0a9..30c38e2 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c
@@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ int do_bzImage_load(struct kexec_info *info,
 	memcpy(real_mode, kernel, kern16_size);
 	if (!real_mode_entry)
 		clean_boot_params((unsigned char *)real_mode, kern16_size);
+	/* disable loading above 4g */
+	real_mode->xloadflags &= ~1;
 
 	if (info->kexec_flags & (KEXEC_ON_CRASH | KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT)) {
 		/* If using bzImage for capture kernel, then we will not be
diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c b/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
index b7ab8ea..3c31f64 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
@@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ void setup_linux_bootloader_parameters(
 	/* Find the maximum initial ramdisk address */
 	initrd_addr_max = DEFAULT_INITRD_ADDR_MAX;
 	if (real_mode->protocol_version >= 0x0203) {
-		initrd_addr_max = real_mode->initrd_addr_max;
+		if (real_mode->protocol_version >= 0x020c &&
+		    real_mode->xloadflags & 1)
+			initrd_addr_max = ULONG_MAX;
+		else
+			initrd_addr_max = real_mode->initrd_addr_max;
 		dbgprintf("initrd_addr_max is 0x%lx\n", initrd_addr_max);
 	}
 
@@ -81,8 +85,16 @@ void setup_linux_bootloader_parameters(
 	}
 
 	/* Ramdisk address and size */
-	real_mode->initrd_start = initrd_base;
-	real_mode->initrd_size  = initrd_size;
+	real_mode->initrd_start = initrd_base & 0xffffffffUL;
+	real_mode->initrd_size  = initrd_size & 0xffffffffUL;
+
+	if (real_mode->protocol_version >= 0x020c &&
+	    (initrd_base & 0xffffffffUL) != initrd_base)
+		real_mode->ext_ramdisk_image = initrd_base >> 32;
+
+	if (real_mode->protocol_version >= 0x020c &&
+	    (initrd_size & 0xffffffffUL) != initrd_size)
+		real_mode->ext_ramdisk_size = initrd_size >> 32;
 
 	/* The location of the command line */
 	/* if (real_mode_base == 0x90000) { */
-- 
1.7.7




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