From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161260AbXCGHcw (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 02:32:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161290AbXCGHbk (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 02:31:40 -0500 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:51303 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161260AbXCGH1z (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 02:27:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:54:00 +0530 From: Vivek Goyal To: linux kernel mailing list Cc: Reloc Kernel List , ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@suse.de, hpa@zytor.com, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, pavel@suse.cz, rjw@sisk.pl Subject: [PATCH 19/20] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage Message-ID: <20070307072400.GT23412@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com References: <20070307065703.GA23412@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070307065703.GA23412@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org o Extend the bzImage protocol (same as i386) to allow bzImage loaders to load the protected mode kernel at non-1MB address. Now protected mode component is relocatable and can be loaded at non-1MB addresses. o As of today kdump uses it to run a second kernel from a reserved memory area. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal --- arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S~x86_64-extend-bzImage-protocol-for-relocatable-bzImage arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S --- linux-2.6.21-rc2-reloc/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S~x86_64-extend-bzImage-protocol-for-relocatable-bzImage 2007-03-07 01:32:01.000000000 +0530 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc2-reloc-root/arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S 2007-03-07 01:32:01.000000000 +0530 @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ start: # This is the setup header, and it must start at %cs:2 (old 0x9020:2) .ascii "HdrS" # header signature - .word 0x0204 # header version number (>= 0x0105) + .word 0x0205 # header version number (>= 0x0105) # or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail) realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG start_sys_seg: .word SYSSEG @@ -155,7 +155,16 @@ cmd_line_ptr: .long 0 # (Header versio # low memory 0x10000 or higher. ramdisk_max: .long 0xffffffff - +kernel_alignment: .long 0x200000 # physical addr alignment required for + # protected mode relocatable kernel +#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE +relocatable_kernel: .byte 1 +#else +relocatable_kernel: .byte 0 +#endif +pad2: .byte 0 +pad3: .word 0 + trampoline: call start_of_setup .align 16 # The offset at this point is 0x240 _