From: George Guo <dongtai.guo@linux.dev>
To: chenhuacai@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org,
pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, pratyush@kernel.org
Cc: kernel@xen0n.name, graf@amazon.com, shuah@kernel.org,
loongarch@lists.linux.dev, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, George Guo <guodongtai@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] LoongArch: kexec: avoid overwriting QEMU's machine FDT at 0x100000
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 14:28:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260525062810.103367-5-dongtai.guo@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260525062810.103367-1-dongtai.guo@linux.dev>
From: George Guo <guodongtai@kylinos.cn>
QEMU places its machine FDT at physical address 0x100000 when booting
with '-kernel'. KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE was defined at the same address, so
machine_kexec_prepare() overwrites the FDT with the relocation trampoline
before jumping to the new kernel.
The kexec'd kernel's fdt_setup() reads the FDT pointer from the EFI
config table (FDTPTR = 0x100000) and finds trampoline code instead of a
valid FDT, so earlycon auto-detection fails and the second kernel boots
silently with no console output.
Move KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE to 0x180000, which is still within the first 2MB
reserved by memblock_init() and does not conflict with the QEMU FDT.
Signed-off-by: George Guo <guodongtai@kylinos.cn>
---
arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index d7fafda1d541..44df7dbd3de5 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
-/* 0x100000 ~ 0x200000 is safe */
-#define KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE TO_CACHE(0x100000UL)
+/*
+ * Both addresses are within the first 2MB which is always reserved by
+ * memblock_init(). Avoid 0x100000 because QEMU places its machine FDT
+ * there when using '-kernel'; overwriting it silences earlycon in the
+ * kexec'd kernel.
+ */
+#define KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE TO_CACHE(0x180000UL)
#define KEXEC_CMDLINE_ADDR TO_CACHE(0x108000UL)
static unsigned long reboot_code_buffer;
--
2.25.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-25 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-25 6:28 [PATCH 0/7] LoongArch: add KHO support and selftests George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 1/7] LoongArch: Add KHO basic support George Guo
2026-05-25 17:34 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-05-28 13:26 ` George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 2/7] LoongArch: kho: strip stale kho_handover= from reused cmdline George Guo
2026-05-25 17:49 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 3/7] LoongArch: Add missing linux/mm.h include in asm/io.h George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` George Guo [this message]
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 5/7] selftests/kho: add LoongArch vmtest support George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 6/7] selftests/kho: LoongArch: disable PS/2 input devices for QEMU virt George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 7/7] selftests/kho: handle QEMU not exiting after kexec on LoongArch George Guo
2026-05-25 7:48 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-25 7:48 ` [PATCH 0/7] LoongArch: add KHO support and selftests Mike Rapoport
2026-05-25 10:25 ` Huacai Chen
2026-05-25 11:24 ` Mike Rapoport
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