linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc1: kexec broken on x86

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Message-ID: <20061005134522.GB20551@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:45:22 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
To:	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	fastboot@...ts.osdl.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>, Magnus Damm <magnus@...inux.co.jp>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1: kexec broken on x86_64

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.

Thanks
Vivek
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