[RESEND PATCH 2/2] ARM: kexec: Check segment memory addresses

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Oct 16 12:32:26 EDT 2012


On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 05:10:21PM +0100, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Aaro,

> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:03:38PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > From: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach at arm.com>
> > 
> > Ensure that the memory regions that are set within the segments
> > correspond to physical contiguous memory regions.
> 
> This patch seems to break kexec for me in 3.7-rc1 (commit
> c564df4db85aac8d1d65a56176a0a25f46138064, bisected).
> 
> kexec -l fails with the following output:
> 
> kexec_load failed: Invalid argument
> entry       = 0x80008000 flags = 280000
> nr_segments = 2
> segment[0].buf   = 0xc48008
> segment[0].bufsz = 230
> segment[0].mem   = 0x80001000
> segment[0].memsz = 1000
> segment[1].buf   = 0xb6a9b008
> segment[1].bufsz = 3a4668
> segment[1].mem   = 0x80008000
> segment[1].memsz = 3a5000
> Could not load the kexec kernel: n800-zImage
> 
> The board is OMAP2420 / Nokia N800.

Interesting, it sounds like kexec thinks that you don't have contiguous
memory from 0x80008000 to 0x803ad000. Can you provide some more information
about your physical memory map please?

Cheers,

Will



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