Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/KASLR: Skip relocation handling in no kaslr case

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> wrote:

> Kdump kernel will reset to firmware after crash is trigered when
> crashkernel=xxM,high is added to kernel command line. Kexec has the
> same phenomenon. This only happened on system with kaslr code
> compiled in and kernel option 'nokaslr'is added. Both of them works
> well when kaslr is enabled.
> 
> When crashkernel high is set or kexec case, kexec/kdump kernel will be
> put above 4G. Since we assign the original loading address of kernel to
> virt_addr as initial value, the virt_addr will be larger than 1G if kaslr
> is disabled, it exceeds the kernel mapping size which is only 1G. Then
> it will cause relocation handling error in handle_relocations().

So instead of whacking yet another kexec mole, how could we turn this into a more 
debuggable warning (either during build or during the failed bootup) instead of a 
crash and reset (triple fault?) back to the BIOS screen?

If kexec/kdump wants to do crazy things they should at least be _debuggable_ in a 
straightforward manner.

Thanks,

	Ingo