> -----Original Message----- > From: Takao Indoh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 2006年9月7日 11:21 > To: Zou, Nanhai > Cc: Keith Owens; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Fastboot] [PATCH]IA64 kexec/kdump patch for INIT > > On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 09:32:38 +0800, "Zou, Nanhai" wrote: > > >> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:57:13 +0800, "Zou, Nanhai" wrote: > >> > >> >> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:06:53 +0900, Takao Indoh wrote: > >> >> > >> >> >>>+ /* change region of gp to region5 */ > >> >> >>>+ asm volatile ("movl gp=__gp"::: "memory"); > >> >> >> > >> >> >>Why? gp is already pointing at the kernel code before we enter > >> >> >>ia64_init_handler(). > >> >> > > >> >> >The purpose of this code is just changing region of gp from region7 to > >> >> >region5. For example, if gp is e000000004ace170, I want to change gp > to > >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~e000000000ace170 > >> >> Sorry, I mistook address... > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Regards, > >> >> Takao Indoh > >> >> > >> > You don't need to set gp here. Control page does not use GP, and > >> >purgatory code will set GP to a physical address which was pre-calculated > >> >at the time of crash kernel loading. > >> > >> If gp points region7, panic occurs at kdump_disable_iosapic. > >> > >> kdump_disable_iosapic(void) > >> { > >> u32 low32; > >> struct iosapic_intr_info *info; > >> struct iosapic_rte_info *rte; > >> for (info = iosapic_intr_info; info < > >> iosapic_intr_info + IA64_NUM_VECTORS; ++info) { > >> low32 = info->low32 |= IOSAPIC_MASK; > >> list_for_each_entry(rte, &info->rtes, > >> rte_list) { > >> (snip) > >> > >> The panic occurs at list_for_each_entry. When I found this problem, > >> &info->rtes and rte->rte_list pointed same data but they had different > >> address. > >> > >> &info->rtes => 0xe0000000049231e0 > >> rte->rte_list => 0xa0000001009231e0 > >> > >> info->rtes points region7 because its address is calculated from gp. > >> This difference of address caused panic. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Takao Indoh > >> > > > > Ok, ia64_setreg should be better. > >We should avoid put inline asm code in C file. > > Yes, at first I used ia64_setreg, but this problem was not solved. > > if (sos->rv_rc != 1 && (kdump_send_ipi || kdump_on_init)) { > extern char __gp[]; > local_irq_disable(); > set_curr_task(cpu, previous_current); > > /* change region of gp to region5 */ > ia64_setreg(_IA64_REG_GP, __gp); > crash_kexec(regs); > > > The disassemble code: > a000000100047080: 0b 38 01 02 00 24 [MMI] addl r39=0,r1;; > a000000100047086: 50 02 9c 00 42 00 mov r37=r39 > a00000010004708c: 00 00 04 00 nop.i 0x0;; > a000000100047090: 0a 08 00 4a 00 21 [MMI] mov r1=r37;; > a000000100047096: c0 02 80 00 42 00 mov r44=r32 > a00000010004709c: 00 00 04 00 nop.i 0x0 > a0000001000470a0: 17 00 02 51 02 14 [BBB] > br.call.sptk.many b0=a0000001000db4a0 <crash_kexec> > > This disassembled code does not change content of r1. > Am I missing something? > That is strange...
For the crash_kexec code, only 1 cpu need execute crash_kexec which will boot the second kernel, While other cpus could wait in spin loop. So we can choose the monarch CPU in from notify_die chain after the monarch/slave walkaround. Thanks Zou Nan hai > Regards, > Takao Indoh
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