From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: fastboot@osdl.org, Jon Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com>,
Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] kexec cant load OpenBSD
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:43:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ejmfl6sr.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070420065451.GA14852@in.ibm.com> (Vivek Goyal's message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:24:51 +0530")
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:49:46PM -0400, Jon Steel wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Im running Gentoo and Im trying to use kexec to start up OpenBSD. I've
>> got it set up correct because I can do a boot into Gentoo. Here is what
>> happens:
>>
>> base ~ # kexec -l /boot/bsd --type="elf-x86"
>> Base address: d0200120 is not page aligned
>>
>
> Above address indicates that some loadable program segment is not
> page size(4K) aligned hence kexec is cribbing.
>
> A, "readelf -l /boot/bsd" should display the various program headers.
> I think you shall have to modify linker script of OpenBSD kernel to
> generate page size aligned loadable segments.
>
> This does raise a question in my mind, why all the program headers
> should be loaded at page size boundaries? Just because ease of handling
> or there is some other reason too?
>
> Eric, you want to shed some light on this requirement?
A) The first problem is that we don't currently have support for OpenBSD
and it does some weird things, and doesn't quite use the ELF fields
generically. So specific support will have to be written for at least
part of it.
B) In the kernel side of the interface the page alignment restriction is
important because of how our intermediate buffers work. For user space
ELF the page alignment of program segments is an important
consideration to allow page sharing but for standalone executables we
really shouldn't care and the restriction probably only exists
because we have a simple translation from ELF segment to the kernel
segments.
Eric
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2007-04-20 6:54 ` [Fastboot] kexec cant load OpenBSD Vivek Goyal
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