[PATCH 4/7] LoongArch: kexec: avoid overwriting QEMU's machine FDT at 0x100000
George Guo
dongtai.guo at linux.dev
Sun May 24 23:28:07 PDT 2026
From: George Guo <guodongtai at kylinos.cn>
QEMU places its machine FDT at physical address 0x100000 when booting
with '-kernel'. KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE was defined at the same address, so
machine_kexec_prepare() overwrites the FDT with the relocation trampoline
before jumping to the new kernel.
The kexec'd kernel's fdt_setup() reads the FDT pointer from the EFI
config table (FDTPTR = 0x100000) and finds trampoline code instead of a
valid FDT, so earlycon auto-detection fails and the second kernel boots
silently with no console output.
Move KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE to 0x180000, which is still within the first 2MB
reserved by memblock_init() and does not conflict with the QEMU FDT.
Signed-off-by: George Guo <guodongtai at kylinos.cn>
---
arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index d7fafda1d541..44df7dbd3de5 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
-/* 0x100000 ~ 0x200000 is safe */
-#define KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE TO_CACHE(0x100000UL)
+/*
+ * Both addresses are within the first 2MB which is always reserved by
+ * memblock_init(). Avoid 0x100000 because QEMU places its machine FDT
+ * there when using '-kernel'; overwriting it silences earlycon in the
+ * kexec'd kernel.
+ */
+#define KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE TO_CACHE(0x180000UL)
#define KEXEC_CMDLINE_ADDR TO_CACHE(0x108000UL)
static unsigned long reboot_code_buffer;
--
2.25.1
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