BUG: 32 Bit Kernel kexec hangs on P2020

[Stefani Seibold]

Am Mittwoch, den 10.07.2013, 16:48 +0800 schrieb tiejun.chen:
> On 07/10/2013 04:39 PM, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i have tried to kexec a 32 bit kernel on a Freescale P2020 dual core CPU
> > (e500v2, revison 5.1 - pvr 8021 1051), but Kexec will hang after the
> > "Bye!".
> >
> > The host and the kexec kernel are the same, based on the current kernel
> > version 3.10.
> >
> > I have tried it with kexec-tools 2.0.4.git released 30 June 2013.
> >
> > Invoking kexec with
> >
> > kexec --command-line "1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib reset_devices $(cat /proc/cmdline)" -t elf-ppc --dtb=rs2020.dtb \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 0/timebase-frequency" \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 0/bus-frequency" \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 0/clock-frequency" \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 0/next-level-cache" \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 1/timebase-frequency" \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 1/bus-frequency" \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 1/clock-frequency" \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 1/next-level-cache" \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 1/cpu-release-addr" \
> > --reuse-node="/cpus/PowerPC,P2020 at 1/enable-method" \
> > --reuse-node="/soc at ffe00000/bus-frequency" \
> > --reuse-node="/soc at ffe00000/serial at 4500/clock-frequency" \
> > --reuse-node="/soc at ffe00000/ethernet at 24000/local-mac-address" \
> > -d -l -x vmlinux
> > kexec -e
> 
> Could you try again with one simple command like,
> 
> kexec -l vmlinux --append="`cat /proc/cmdline`";kexec -e
> 

Great, this works.

I did more test and the issue for the fail is the passing of the device
tree. But the device tree is exact the same as the previous used one.

Is passing a new device tree not allowed?

Stefani