> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Lan > Sent: 2006年11月14日 8:57 > To: fastboot > Cc: Linux-IA64 > Subject: 'kexec -l' problem at IA64 SN > > Hi, > > I finally got time to work on 'kexec -l' problem at SGI box. > The 'kexec -l' always failed on "Invalid memory segment". > I am using these patches: > kexec-tools-1.101-kdump10.patch > kexec-tools-1.101-ia64-kdump10-efi-boot.patch > clone-ia64_boot_param-kdump10.patch > fix-paddr-vmcore-ELF > kexec-ia64-reset-vga (a special workaround from Nanhai to > handle vga i/o issue) > Note that 'kexec -p' worked fine for me. > > It would try to add memory segment 0x4000000 - 0x4997fff, > but failed in valid_memory_range() check. > > It was the first segment it tried to load. > > The kexec_info struct showed: > (gdb) p *(struct kexec_info *)0x607fffffffa0b338 > $2 = {segment = 0x0, nr_segments = 0, entry = 0x0, rhdr = {ei_class = 0, > ei_data = 0, e_type = 0, e_machine = 0, e_version = 0, e_flags = 0, > e_phnum = 0, e_shnum = 0, e_shstrndx = 0, e_entry = 0, e_phoff = 0, > e_shoff = 0, e_notenum = 0, e_phdr = 0x0, e_shdr = 0x0, e_note = 0x0, > rel_addr = 0, rel_size = 0}, backup_start = 0, kexec_flags = 0} > > > and, the mem_phdr struct showed: > (gdb) p *(struct mem_phdr *) 0x6000000000014e20 > $4 = {p_paddr = 67108864, p_vaddr = 11529215050363437056, > p_filesz = 10000768, p_memsz = 10000768, p_offset = 65536, > p_data = 0x2000000000338010 "\004\200", p_type = 1, p_flags = 7, > p_align = 65536} > (gdb) > > The 'base' variable in elf_exec_load() at the time of calling > add_segment() was 0. > > Where did it go wrong? The phdr->p_paddr? The base? It was off > by 0x3000000000. It needs adjustment, but where in the code and > which value? > > The 'kexec -p' worked fine. > > Thanks, > - jay > > > Hi, Kexec -l is still using the entry value of vmlinux while kexec -p can float it's loading address according to /proc/iomem.
I will provide a patch to kexec-tools later to fix it. Thanks Zou Nan hai > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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