[PATCH v3 4/4] kexec, x86_64: Load bzImage64 above 4G

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:09:04PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:50:56AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >
> > [..]
> >> > So how do I force a 16bit or 32bit entry using a bzImage64?
> >>
> >> kexec -t bzImage -l ....
> >> will load low and use 32bit entry.
> >>
> >
> > Ok, so user needs to enforce image type (using -t option) to bzImage
> > (for a bzImage which supports 64bit entry point) to be able to use
> > 32bit entry.
> >
> > I think a better option is that bzImage64 loader parses the user specified
> > entry options and call into 32bit bzImage loader if user is asking for 32bit
> > or 16bit entry. For 16bit, we already have option --real-mode option. May
> > be we need to introduce another one for forcing 32bit entry, say --entry-32bit
> > or --protected-mode (whatever makes sense).
> 
> that is doable.
> 
> add checking entry-32bit and real-mode checking in kexec-bzImage64.c
> and bail early to leave kexec-bzImage.c to take over.

Or actually can we do reverse. Do not introduce new image format
bzImage64. In existing bzImage loader if bzImage version is greater
than 0x020c (or whatever version has 64bit entry extension), just
call into load_bzImage64().

Thanks
Vivek