Re: 2.6.19-rc1: kexec broken on x86_64

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

"Magnus Damm" <magnus.damm@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Vivek,
>
> On 10/5/06, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:28:35PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
>> > Kexec is broken on x86_64 under 2.6.19-rc1.
>> >
>> > Or rather - kexec works ok under 2.6.19-rc1, but something related to
>> > the vmlinux format has probably changed and kexec-tools fails to load
>> > a vmlinux from 2.6.19-rc1.
>> >
>> > Loading bzImage works as usual, but vmlinux does not load properly.
>> >
>> > The kexec binary fails with the following message:
>> >
>> > Overlapping memory segments at 0x351000
>> > sort_segments failed
>> > / #
>> >
>>
>> Hi Magnus,
>>
>> Can you please post the readelf -l output of the vmlinux you are trying
>> to load. That's will give some indication if the segments are really
>> overlapping in vmlinux or is it some processing bug at kexec-tools part.
>
> Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
> Entry point 0x100100
> There are 4 program headers, starting at offset 64
>
> Program Headers:
>  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
>                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
>  LOAD           0x0000000000100000 0xffffffff80100000 0x0000000000100000
>                 0x00000000001a4888 0x00000000001a4888  R E    100000
>  LOAD           0x00000000002a5000 0xffffffff802a5000 0x00000000002a5000
>                 0x000000000008e086 0x00000000000c1504  RWE    100000
>  LOAD           0x0000000000400000 0xffffffffff600000 0x00000000002fd000
>                 0x0000000000000c08 0x0000000000000c08  RWE    100000
>  NOTE           0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
>                 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000  R      8
>
> Section to Segment mapping:
>  Segment Sections...
>   00     .text __ex_table .rodata .pci_fixup __ksymtab __ksymtab_gpl
> __ksymtab_unused __ksymtab_strings __param
>   01     .data .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly
> .data.init_task .data.page_aligned .init.text .init.data .init.setup
> .initcall.init .con_initcall.init .altinstructions
> .altinstr_replacement .exit.text .init.ramfs .bss
>   02     .vsyscall_0 .xtime_lock .vxtime .vgetcpu_mode .sys_tz
> .sysctl_vsyscall .xtime .jiffies .vsyscall_1 .vsyscall_2 .vsyscall_3
>   03
>
> Thanks,

Ok.  There does not appear anything here that is not page aligned.  So
it looks like something is triggering a kexec-tools bug.

Eric