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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: "Carlos Silva" <r3pek@r3pek.homelinux.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: kexec "problem" [and patch updates]
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:54:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040226165446.16a5bb3b.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28775.62.229.71.110.1077620541.squirrel@webmail.r3pek.homelinux.org>

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:02:21 -0000 (WET) Carlos Silva wrote:

| hi guys,
| 
| i have just compiled a kernel with the kexec patch. compiled kexec-tools
| and when i try to load a kernel, it gives me this:
| # ./do-kexec.sh /boot/bzImage-2.6.2-g
| kexec_load failed: Invalid argument
| entry       = 0x91764
| nr_segments = 2
| segment[0].buf   = 0x80b3480
| segment[0].bufsz = 1880
| segment[0].mem   = 0x90000
| segment[0].memsz = 1880
| segment[1].buf   = 0x40001008
| segment[1].bufsz = 19795a
| segment[1].mem   = 0x100000
| segment[1].memsz = 19795a
| 
| anyone tried to run kexec and actually did it? i'm trying with kernel 2.6.3
| -

I updated the kexec patch for 2.6.2 and 2.6.3.
It works fine on 2.6.2.  It works for me on 2.6.3 if not SMP.
If the kernel is built for SMP, when running kexec, I get a
BUG in arch/i386/kernel/smp.c at line 359.
I'm testing various workarounds for that BUG now.

--
~Randy

kexec updates are at:
http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/kexec/2.6.2/
and
http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/kexec/2.6.3/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-27  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-24 16:03 Latest AIO patchset Suparna Bhattacharya
2004-02-24 11:02 ` kexec "problem" Carlos Silva
2004-02-24 17:10   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-24 17:24     ` Carlos Silva
2004-02-27  0:54   ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-02-27  8:00     ` [Fastboot] Re: kexec "problem" [and patch updates] Eric W. Biederman
2004-02-27 19:32       ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-28 10:41         ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-04 13:03           ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-03-08  0:32             ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-08 18:35             ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-25 18:45 ` Latest AIO patchset Hayim Shaul
2004-02-26  0:27   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2004-02-26 13:30     ` Hayim Shaul
2004-02-26 16:45       ` Daniel McNeil

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