[PATCH 00/10] arm64 kexec kernel patches V5

[Dave Young]

On 10/31/14 at 04:25pm, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Thanks for testing.
> 
> On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 15:52 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > I tested your patches. The macihne is using spin-table cpu enable method
> > so I tried maxcpus=1 as you suggested.
> > 
> > There's below issues for me, thoughts?
> > 
> > 1. For acpi booting there's no /proc/device-tree so kexec can not find dtb
> > to use.
> 
> You can supply a DTB with the kexec --dtb option, then kexec will not need
> /proc/device-tree.  Please try if you can and let me know what happens.

I remember I tried but kexec load fails due to kexec-tools is still trying to
access proc flattened dtb. I have little time last few days, will test it again
to confirm. 

> 
> > 2. adding "acpi=off" to 1st kernel boot cmdline, kexec load fails with error
> > like below:
> > machine_apply_elf_rel: ERROR Unknown type: 261
> > 
> > I did below hack then kexec load works fine, 
> 
> OK, thanks, I'll add support for R_AARCH64_PREL32 in.
> 
> > but `kexec -e` still does not work
> > there's nothing more than "Disableing non-boot CPUS ...\n Bye!":
> 
> It is really tough to say what happened.  The 'Bye!' message is printed
> just before the 1st stage kernel exits and the 2nd stage kernel is
> entered.  If you have a debugger you can put some breakpoints in
> there to see how far it gets.  That is generally how I figure out
> what went wrong.
> 
> You could try the kexec --lite option, it will do a non-purgatory
> boot.
> 
> You could also try my master branch that has more debugging output.
> Some of it is through the VE's serial port, so you may need to
> change that to what your platform has.

I think I have will have to check if I can find a way to debug as you
have done in your master branch.

Thanks a lot
Dave