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From: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
To: Sameer Goel <sgoel@codeaurora.org>
Cc: panand@redhat.com, takahiro.akashi@linaro.org,
	timur@codeaurora.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	rruigrok@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] arm64:kexec: Memstart should not be before the kernel start address
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:45:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1471542334.20164.8.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470965069-20121-1-git-send-email-sgoel@codeaurora.org>

Hi Sameer,

On Thu, 2016-08-11 at 19:24 -0600, Sameer Goel wrote:
> Starting 4.6 the kernel memblock start is rounded down to a desirable
> alignment. 

Please mention here the kernel commit that made this change, maybe
'kernel commit a7f8de168ace ("arm64: allow kernel Image to be loaded
anywhere in physical memory")'?

> So, the kernel can see reserved meory regions before the kernel
> start address in the iomem query.
> Need to make sure that the right kernel start address is picked from the iomem
> query.

Please run kexec with the --debug option and post the get_memory_ranges
output to the ML or send me directly if you consider it sensitive.
 
-Geoff


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-18 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-12  1:24 [PATCH V2] arm64:kexec: Memstart should not be before the kernel start address Sameer Goel
2016-08-12  5:28 ` Pratyush Anand
2016-08-18 17:45 ` Geoff Levand [this message]

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