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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 11:27:35 +0200
From: Petr Tesarik <petrtesarik@...weicloud.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
Li Huafei <lihuafei1@...wei.com>,
Liao Chang <liaochang1@...wei.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>,
Alyssa Ross <hi@...ssa.is>, Li Zhengyu <lizhengyu3@...wei.com>,
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Cc: Torsten Duwe <duwe@...e.de>,
Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...weicloud.com>, petr@...arici.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] RISC-V: Fix a few kexec_file_load(2) failures
Hi,
On 7/26/2023 11:53 AM, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> From: Petr Tesarik <petr.tesarik.ext@...wei.com>
>
> The kexec_file_load(2) syscall does not work at least in some kernel
> builds. For details see the relevant section in this blog post:
>
> https://sigillatum.tesarici.cz/2023-07-21-state-of-riscv64-kdump.html
>
> This patch series handles an additional relocation types, removes the need
> to implement a Global Offset Table (GOT) for the purgatory and fixes the
> placement of initrd.
It seems there are no objections, but what is the plan here? Take it
into 6.5 as a fix, or let it go through for-next?
Petr T
> Changelog
> =========
>
> Changes from v1:
> - Replace memcmp() with a for loop.
> - Drop handling of 16-bit add/subtract relocations. They were used only
> by alternatives in strcmp(), which was referenced only by string.o.
> - Add the initrd placement fix.
>
> Petr Tesarik (1):
> riscv/purgatory: do not link with string.o and its dependencies
>
> Torsten Duwe (2):
> riscv/kexec: handle R_RISCV_CALL_PLT relocation type
> riscv/kexec: load initrd high in available memory
>
> arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c | 3 ++-
> arch/riscv/purgatory/Makefile | 26 +-------------------------
> arch/riscv/purgatory/purgatory.c | 6 ++++--
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
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