[PATCH 2/3] kexec: Introduce UKI image parser

Pingfan Liu piliu at redhat.com
Fri Oct 11 04:14:07 PDT 2024


On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 4:44 PM Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 07:54:02PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > A UKI image is a PE file that consists of several sections, typically
> > including: .text, .data, .linux, .initrd, .cmdline, and others.
> >
> > The kernel image is stored in the .linux section, which is one of the
> > formats currently recognized by kexec-tools. Therefore, the UKI parser
> > can be used to strip away the UKI layer, allowing the other parser to
> > process the kernel image.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com>
> > Cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> > Cc: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
> > Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> > Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
> > ---
> >  include/pe.h      | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kexec/Makefile    |   1 +
> >  kexec/kexec-uki.c | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kexec/kexec.h     |   4 ++
> >  4 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 include/pe.h
> >  create mode 100644 kexec/kexec-uki.c
>
> Hi Pingfan Liu,
>
> I think you need to squash the following into this patch
> so that pe.h is included in distribution tarballs.
>
> You should be able to see the problem by running: make distcheck.
>

Oh, thanks. I will fix it in V2 and  remember to do such tests in future.

Best regards,

Pingfan

> diff --git a/include/Makefile b/include/Makefile
> index cd88a26b1476..6a3e8541c36d 100644
> --- a/include/Makefile
> +++ b/include/Makefile
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ dist += include/Makefile                \
>         include/x86/mb_header.h         \
>         include/x86/multiboot2.h        \
>         include/elf.h                   \
> +       include/pe.h                    \
>         include/image.h                 \
>         include/unused.h                \
>         include/boot/linuxbios_tables.h \
>




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