On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:56:51PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
> 
> On 10/5/06, Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
> Entry point 0x100100
> There are 4 program headers, starting at offset 64
> 
> Program Headers:
>  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
>                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
>  LOAD           0x0000000000100000 0xffffffff80100000 0x0000000000100000
>                 0x00000000001a4888 0x00000000001a4888  R E    100000
>  LOAD           0x00000000002a5000 0xffffffff802a5000 0x00000000002a5000
>                 0x000000000008e086 0x00000000000c1504  RWE    100000
>  LOAD           0x0000000000400000 0xffffffffff600000 0x00000000002fd000
>                 0x0000000000000c08 0x0000000000000c08  RWE    100000
>  NOTE           0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
>                 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000  R      8
> 
> Section to Segment mapping:
>  Segment Sections...
>   00     .text __ex_table .rodata .pci_fixup __ksymtab __ksymtab_gpl
> __ksymtab_unused __ksymtab_strings __param
>   01     .data .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly
> .data.init_task .data.page_aligned .init.text .init.data .init.setup
> .initcall.init .con_initcall.init .altinstructions
> .altinstr_replacement .exit.text .init.ramfs .bss
>   02     .vsyscall_0 .xtime_lock .vxtime .vgetcpu_mode .sys_tz
> .sysctl_vsyscall .xtime .jiffies .vsyscall_1 .vsyscall_2 .vsyscall_3
>   03
>

Hi Magnus,

I think this got introduced because of Ian Cambell's patch for creating
PT_NOTE headers. Can you please try attached patch. I think it should
fix the issue.

Thanks
Vivek
 


o A recent change to vmlinux.ld.S file broke kexec as now resulting vmlinux
  program headers are overlapping in physical address space.

o Now all the vsyscall related sections are placed after data and after
  that mostly init data sections are placed. To avoid physical overlap
  among phdrs, there are three possible solutions.      
        - Place vsyscall sections also in data phdrs instead of user
        - move vsyscal sections after init data in bss.
        - create another phdrs say data.init and move all the sections
          after vsyscall into this new phdr.

o This patch implements the third solution. 

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN 
arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S~x86_64-physical-addr-space-overlap-in-phdrs-fix
 arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
--- 
linux-2.6.19-rc1-1M/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S~x86_64-physical-addr-space-overlap-in-phdrs-fix
        2006-10-05 12:15:00.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc1-1M-root/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S   2006-10-05 
12:15:00.000000000 -0400
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ PHDRS {
        text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5);  /* R_E */
        data PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);  /* RWE */
        user PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);  /* RWE */
+       data.init PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);     /* RWE */
        note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4);  /* R__ */
 }
 SECTIONS
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ SECTIONS
   . = ALIGN(8192);             /* init_task */
   .data.init_task : AT(ADDR(.data.init_task) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
        *(.data.init_task)
-  } :data
+  }:data.init
 
   . = ALIGN(4096);
   .data.page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
_
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