Re: kexec reboot failed due to commit 75d090fd167ac

[Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 04:14:09PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 10:04:51PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > > Could you show dmesg of the first kernel before kexec?
> > 
> > Attached.
> > 
> > BTW, kexec is invoked like this:
> > kver=6.4.0-rc5-00009-g75d090fd167a
> > kdir=$HOME/kernels/$kver
> > sudo kexec -l $kdir/vmlinuz-$kver --initrd=$kdir/initramfs-$kver.img --append="root=UUID=4381321e-e01e-455a-9d46-5e8c4c5b2d02 ro net.ifnames=0 acpi_rsdp=0x728e8014 no_hash_pointers sched_verbose selinux=0"
> 
> I don't understand why it happens.
> 
> Could you check if this patch changes anything:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
> index 94b7abcf624b..172c476ff6f3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
> @@ -456,10 +456,12 @@ asmlinkage __visible void *extract_kernel(void *rmode, memptr heap,
>  
>  	debug_putstr("\nDecompressing Linux... ");
>  
> +#if 0
>  	if (init_unaccepted_memory()) {
>  		debug_putstr("Accepting memory... ");
>  		accept_memory(__pa(output), __pa(output) + needed_size);
>  	}
> +#endif
>  
>  	__decompress(input_data, input_len, NULL, NULL, output, output_len,
>  			NULL, error);
> -- 

It solved the problem.