Re: [Fastboot] [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

> >> 
> >> I'm a little disappointed but at this point it isn't a great surprise,
> >> the code is early yet and hasn't had much testing or attention.
> >> I wonder if I have missed something else silly.
> >> 
> >> As for testing, can you use plain kexec to load the kernel at a
> >> different address?  I'm curious to know if it is something related
> >> to the kexec on panic path or if it is just running at a different
> >> location that is the problem.
> >

I think I have found the 'something silly'.  Here is a patch that allows
our Dell em64t boxes to boot.  This change matches the original code.  The
main difference that caused the problems was the setting of _PAGE_NX bit.
This caused issues in early_io_remap().  

Thanks to Larry Woodman for debugging this.  

Cheers,
Don


Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>

--- linux-2.6.17.noarch/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c.orig	2006-08-11 12:35:58.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.17.noarch/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c	2006-08-11 13:14:20.000000000 -0400
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
 		vaddr += addr & ~PMD_MASK;
 		addr &= PMD_MASK;
 		for (i = 0; i < pmds; i++, addr += PMD_SIZE)
-			set_pmd(pmd + i,__pmd(addr | __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE));
+			set_pmd(pmd + i,__pmd(addr | _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_PSE));
 		__flush_tlb();
 		return (void *)vaddr;
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