Hi,

the patch works!

I am able to reboot my system using kexec when the kernel has this patch.

I had to slightly modify the patch, so it will apply against linux-3.15.10:

--- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c.old 2014-08-22 14:52:20.792158801 +0200
+++ arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c     2014-08-22 14:58:21.250506919 +0200
@@ -230,8 +230,9 @@
                asm("hlt");
 }

-#if CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS
-static void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long output_len)
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS
+static void handle_relocations(void *output_orig, void *output,
+                              unsigned long output_len)
 {
        int *reloc;
        unsigned long delta, map, ptr;
@@ -242,7 +243,7 @@
         * Calculate the delta between where vmlinux was linked to load
         * and where it was actually loaded.
         */
-       delta = min_addr - LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR;
+       delta = min_addr - (unsigned long)output_orig;
        if (!delta) {
                debug_putstr("No relocation needed... ");
                return;
@@ -299,7 +300,8 @@
 #endif
 }
 #else
-static inline void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long
output_len)
+static inline void handle_relocations(void *output_orig, void *output,
+                                     unsigned long output_len)
 { }
 #endif

@@ -360,6 +362,8 @@
                                  unsigned char *output,
                                  unsigned long output_len)
 {
+       unsigned char *output_orig = output;
+
        real_mode = rmode;

        sanitize_boot_params(real_mode);
@@ -402,7 +406,7 @@
        debug_putstr("\nDecompressing Linux... ");
        decompress(input_data, input_len, NULL, NULL, output, NULL, error);
        parse_elf(output);
-       handle_relocations(output, output_len);
+       handle_relocations(output_orig, output, output_len);
        debug_putstr("done.\nBooting the kernel.\n");
        return output;
 }




So now we have two "solutions":

1) Using kexec with "--entry-32bit" parameter

2) Use a patched kernel


-Thomas

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