[PATCH 0/2] Simple fix to the ARM kexec tools implementation

[panand@redhat.com (Pratyush Anand)]

On 17/06/2016:08:44:05 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> This is the "simple" fix for the ARM kexec tools code, which makes
> the code actually do what the comments describe.
> 
> There are two problems:
> 
> 1. When placing the initrd, we do not take account of the 32k offset
>    that is required for the kernel image.
> 
> 2. The code claims to allow the zImage decompressor to expand by a
>    factor of 4, but only allows space for a factor of 3, since the
>    decompressor itself has to fit in this memory space as well.
> 
> Changing the code to follow the comments allows Keystone II to kexec
> with DEBUG_RODATA enabled, at least with the kernel I've been testing
> with.
> 
> This is a stop-gap solution until a better solution can be implemented.

Yes, so until we have proper header for zImage, these patches looks fine to me.
For both of the patches:

Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>

> 
>  kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c | 16 ++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
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