From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Subject: Re: v4.8: arm64 fix kexec
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 14:58:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170104135800.GA7299@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d14ff0d6-6d63-0186-8dbb-c6064e3a7686@suse.com>
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 08:20:27PM +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> kexec on arm64 is broken in v4.8.y because in /proc/iomem "nomap" regions,
> like UEFI runtime services code/data, are marked as "System RAM".
> On seattle this leads to the fact, that kexec from kexec-tools loads the
> kernel and the initrd in a memory region which should be ""reserved". This
> breaks kexec on the system.
>
> commit
> e7cd190385d1 ("arm64: mark reserved memblock regions explicitly in iomem")
>
> Fixes this and should be added to v4.8 stable tree.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2016-12-14 19:20 v4.8: arm64 fix kexec Matthias Brugger
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