linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390/boot: block uncompressed vmlinux booting attempts

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Message-ID: <20180626102449.50b65335.cohuck@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:24:49 +0200
From:   Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:     Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, qemu-s390x <qemu-s390x@...gnu.org>,
        qemu-devel <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
        Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/boot: block uncompressed vmlinux booting attempts

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:30:19 +0200
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com> wrote:

> On 06/25/2018 05:09 PM, Vasily Gorbik wrote:
> > Since uncompressed kernel image "vmlinux" elf file is not bootable under
> > qemu anymore, add a check which would report that.
> > 
> > Qemu users are encouraged to use bzImage or
> > arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux instead.
> > 
> > The check relies on s390 linux entry point ABI definition, which is only
> > present in bzImage and arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>  
> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> 
> some proposals regarding the wording below..
> 
> [...]
> > +
> > +	sclp_early_printk("The linux kernel boot failure: the image is corrupted or not bootable.\n");
> > +	sclp_early_printk("Please check that you are using bootable kernel image \"bzImage\".\n");
> > +	sclp_early_printk("(or alternatively \"arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux\" image for qemu)\n");  
> 
> What about making this explain things a bit more, e.g. something like
> 
> Linux kernel boot failure: The boot image does not contain all necessary
> components (like the entry point and decompressor). The plain vmlinux ELF
> file no longer carries all necessary parts for starting up. Please use
> bzImage or arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux.

Yes, that sounds good. With the changed message,

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>