On 11/16/2012 12:53 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Now we have limit kdump reseved under 896M, because kexec has the limitation.
> and also bzImage need to stay under 4g.
>
> To make kexec/kdump could use range above 4g, we need to make bzImage and
> ramdisk could be loaded above 4g.
> During booting bzImage will be unpacked on same postion and stay high.
>
> The patches add field in boot header to
> 1. get info about ramdisk position info above 4g from bootloader/kexec
> 2. set code64_start_offset in header for bzImage and bootloader/kexec load
> could check that to decide if need to put bzImage high.
>
> This patches is tested with kexec tools with local changes, will send kexec
> tools change to kexec list later.
>
> could be found at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git
> for-x86-boot
>
> and it is on top of for-x86-mm
>
Mostly a good series, but the 0x208 is a showstopper. 0x200 is awkward
as an ABI (too big to just make a jump table, but potentially too small
to hold all the code needed.) I have sent some other comments, too.
If 0x200 is too small, it isn't a huge problem; we can put a jump at
0x200 and continue the 32-bit code afterwards:
/* 32-bit code */
jmp 1f
.org 0x200
.code64
ENTRY(startup_64)
jmp start_64_real
.code32
1:
/* 32-bit code continues... */
It is annoying because it has to be placed by hand, but isn't actually a
problem. The easy way to do this is probably to push verify_cpu.S into
the post-entry-point area. The .code64/.code32 don't actually do
anything for a simple jmp, but are added for documentation.
How is collecting comments and ACKs for for-x86-mm coming? I'd like to
do another review pass today and putting it in -tip if it is in better
shape. Otherwise I suspect we'll be looking at 3.9, which is OK, of course.
-hpa
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