linux-kernel - Re: Kexec regression in next-20160906

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Date:   Tue, 06 Sep 2016 20:33:20 -0300
From:   Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-ima-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Kexec regression in next-20160906

Hello Tony,

Am Dienstag, 06 September 2016, 15:09:37 schrieb Tony Lindgren:
> Looks like commit 5c01cdd2d4bc ("kexec_file: allow skipping checksum
> calculation for some segments") makes next-20160916 stop working for
> me at least on ARM.
> 
> I now get "kexec_load failed: Invalid argument error" on loading the
> new kernel to memory with kexec -l.
> 
> Reverting the following two commits makes things work for me again:
> 
> d2bf993afdf1 ("kexec_file: add mechanism to update kexec segments")
> 5c01cdd2d4bc ("kexec_file: allow skipping checksum calculation for
> some segments")

Thanks for reporting the problem and finding the commit that caused it.
The only thing in commit 5c01cdd2d4bc which can affect kexec_load is the 
fact that struct kexec_segment has a new member.

This is probably breaking the ABI on ARM, then. I verified that kexec_load 
kept working on ppc64le with a kexec binary compiled with the original 
struct kexec_segment definition, but apparently I got lucky.

I'll prepare a new version of the kexec buffer hand-over series which 
doesn't touch struct kexec_segment.

-- 
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center