linux-kernel - Re: [Fastboot] [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86

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Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:31:43 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	vgoyal@...ibm.com
Cc:	fastboot@...l.org, Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Jan Kratochvil <lace@...kratochvil.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:25:20PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:19:04AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> > 
>> > I have spent some time and have gotten my relocatable kernel patches
>> > working against the latest kernels.  I intend to push this upstream
>> > shortly.
>> > 
>> > Could all of the people who care take a look and test this out
>> > to make certain that it doesn't just work on my test box?
>> > 
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> Currently I am testing your patches on i386. With CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
>> kernel boots fine and kexec also works.
>> 
>> But my kernel hangs on kexec on panic case. It hangs early in 
>> decompress_kernel(). Kernel hangs at following condition.
>> 
>> +       if (((u32)output - CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) & 0x3fffff)
>> +               error("Destination address not 4M aligned");
>> 

As for the missing print.  Did you have an appropriate earlyprintk?

> Ok. I am decompressing the kernel to 16MB and after reducing 1MB of
> CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START I am left with 15MB which is not 4M aligned
> hence I seems to be running into it.
>
> I changed it to
>
> if ((u32)output) & 0x3fffff)
>
> and kdump kernel booted fine. But this will run into issues if I load
> kernel at 1MB.
>
> I got a dump question. Why do I have to load the kernel at 4MB alignment?
> Existing kernel boots loads at 1MB, which is non 4MB aligned and it works
> fine?

4MB is a little harsh, but I haven't worked through what the exact rules
are, I know 4MB is the worst case alignment for arch/i386.

The rule is that we have to be at the same offset from 4MB as we
were built to run at.  So in this case address where (address %4MB) == 1MB.

We might be able to get away with 2MB alignment.  I thought kexec-tools
did that calculation automatically for an ET_DYN image but it has been
a while since I looked.

My goal with the check was to catch problems early before something
bad happened.

Eric

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