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From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: x86_64 kernel relocation question
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:17:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110071714.GA14737@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8B2A78E5-2911-4F96-91AD-BEE846B76B4A@lanl.gov>

* kevint <kevint@lanl.gov> [2008-01-10 01:45]:
>
> I am relatively new to kexec, and am running into some problems with 
> relocations when I try to use kexec to load several different X86_64 
> kernels.  I think this is the correct list to post to, but please point me 
> in the right direction if it isn't.
>
> Here is some of the information on my test environment:
>
> $ kexec --version
> kexec-tools-testing 20071030 released 30th October 2007
>
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.21.5

Just to make sure, is CONFIG_RELOCATABLE set?

> $ kexec -l /tmp/vmlinuz
> Unhandled rela relocation: 4258616
>
> I noticed this line in the source file, 
> kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-elf-rel-x86_64.c:
>
> die("Unhandled rela relocation: %lu\n", reloc_name(r_type));
>
> I figured %lu should be %s, so I changed it, and got the following output:

Can you make a patch and send it to this list so that it get fixed in
kexec-tools-testing? Cc Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, the
maintainer.



        Bernhard

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2008-01-10  0:45 x86_64 kernel relocation question kevint
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