[PATCHv6 3/5] kexec/zboot: Add arch independent zboot support

Simon Horman horms at kernel.org
Wed Aug 2 05:17:54 PDT 2023


On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 02:16:33PM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 05:53:59PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> > 
> > Thanks for the try. Please see the comment below.
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 3:00 PM Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:21:40AM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > > > From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
> > > >
> > > > The linux kernel CONFIG_ZBOOT option creates
> > > > self decompressing PE kernel images. So this means
> > > > that kexec should have a generic understanding of
> > > > the format which may be used by multiple arches.
> > > >
> > > > So lets add an arch independent validation
> > > > and decompression routine.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
> > > > [Modified by Pingfan to export kernel fd]
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com>
> > >
> > > Hi Pingfan,
> > >
> > > unfortunately this causes a build failure on hppa.
> > >
> > > ../../kexec/kexec-pe-zboot.c:31:10: fatal error: kexec-pe-zboot.h: No such file or directory
> > >    31 | #include <kexec-pe-zboot.h>
> > >       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >
> > > Link: https://github.com/horms/kexec-tools/actions/runs/5723580523/job/15508425790
> > >
> > 
> > It is not related to cross-compiling. Actually, I have tried to
> > simplify the test matrix, which limits the compilation only on x86_64.
> > And I got the similar error [1]
> > 
> > The workflow control file is [2], which clips out all arches except
> > x86_64.  But I can successfully build it on the Fedora system with the
> > following bash script, which is based on the github's build log.  So
> > maybe it is a bug with the compiling tools?
> > 
> > kexec_tools_dir="./"
> > 
> > mkdir $kexec_tools_dir/_build \
> >          $kexec_tools_dir/_build/sub \
> >          $kexec_tools_dir/_inst \
> >          $kexec_tools_dir/_dest
> > chmod a-w $kexec_tools_dir
> > test -d $kexec_tools_dir/_build
> > INSTALL_BASE=$(cd $kexec_tools_dir/_inst && pwd | sed -e
> > 's,^[^:\\/]:[\\/],/,') &&\
> >         DESTDIR="$kexec_tools_dir/_dest" && \
> >         cd $kexec_tools_dir/_build/sub && \
> >                 ../../configure \
> >                  \
> >                 --srcdir=../.. --prefix="$INSTALL_BASE" && \
> >         make  -j8
> > 
> > 
> > [1]: https://github.com/pfliu/kexec-tools/actions/runs/5737254109/job/15548520863
> > [2]: https://github.com/pfliu/kexec-tools/blob/zbootV6/.github/workflows/main.yml
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> I guess that kexec-pe-zboot.h is missing in the build environment for the
> GitHub actions, but present in your Fedora environment.
> 
> Could you take a look and see where your copy of kexec-pe-zboot.h
> came from?

Actually it seems to be added by this patch (sorry for not noticing)!
So I guess it is an include path problem.



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