On 09/24/2013 10:52 AM, Athira Rajeev wrote:
> From: Suzuki K. Poulose <[email protected]>
> 
> If the primary kernel doesn't use an initrd,
> we may not have linux,initrd-* entries in the
> device-tree, and hence the initial flat tree
> may not contain them.
> 
> Make sure we add the entries in the dtb if the
> second kernel needs an initrd.
Simon,

Without this patch, one cannot use an initrd with kexec on a machine
which is booted without an initrd. (e.g, network booted boards.)

Please pull this one.

Thanks
Suzuki

> 
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev<[email protected]>
> ---
> 
>  kexec/arch/ppc/fs2dt.c |   18 ++++++++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc/fs2dt.c b/kexec/arch/ppc/fs2dt.c
> index a49f85e..4121c7d 100644
> --- a/kexec/arch/ppc/fs2dt.c
> +++ b/kexec/arch/ppc/fs2dt.c
> @@ -342,8 +342,17 @@ static void putnode(void)
> 
>       putprops(dn, namelist, numlist);
> 
> -     /* Add initrd entries to the second kernel */
> -     if (initrd_base && !strcmp(basename, "chosen/")) {
> +     /* 
> +      * Add initrd entries to the second kernel
> +      * if
> +      *      a) a ramdisk is specified in cmdline
> +      *       OR
> +      *      b) reuseinitrd is specified and a initrd is
> +      *         used by the kernel.
> +      *
> +      */
> +     if ((ramdisk || (initrd_base && reuse_initrd))
> +             && !strcmp(basename, "chosen/")) {
>               int len = 8;
>               unsigned long long initrd_end;
>               *dt++ = 3;
> @@ -362,8 +371,9 @@ static void putnode(void)
> 
>               memcpy(dt, &initrd_end, len);
>               dt += (len + 3)/4;
> -
> -             reserve(initrd_base, initrd_size);
> +             /* reserve the existing initrd image in case of reuse_initrd */
> +             if (initrd_base && initrd_size && reuse_initrd)
> +                     reserve(initrd_base, initrd_size);
>       }
> 
>       for (i = 0; i < numlist; i++) {
> 


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