kexec fails to boot kernels where CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y is set

Thomas D. whissi at whissi.de
Fri Aug 22 05:47:39 PDT 2014


On 2014-08-22 14:38, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> So may be this failure happens because new kernel stomps over page tables
> of old kernel. But if that theory is right, then we should be able to
> kexec using 32bit entry point of bzImage.
> 
> Thomas, have you had any success with that?

When I execute kexec with "--entry-32bit" (I understand that you asked
me to try that) the new kernel will boot as expected.

I'll now try the kernel patch...


-Thomas




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