From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
fastboot@osdl.org, Horms <horms@verge.net.au>,
Jan Kratochvil <lace@jankratochvil.net>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:04:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E0AD1D.1040408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060814165150.GA2519@in.ibm.com>
Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:09:58PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> I just reserved memory at non 2MB aligned location 65MB@15MB so that
>>> kernel is loaded at 16MB and other smaller segments below the compressed
>>> image, then I can successfully booted into the kdump kernel.
>> :)
>>
>>> So basically kexec on panic path seems to be clean except stomping issue.
>>> May be bzImage program header should reflect right "MemSize" which
>>> takes into account extra memory space calculations.
>> Yes. That sounds like the right thing to do.
>>
>> I remember trying to compute a good memsize when I created the bzImage
>> header but it is completely possible I missed some part of the
>> calculation or assumed that the kernels .bss section would always be
>> larger than what I needed for decompression.
>>
Could someone please describe the intended semantics of this MemSize
header, *and* its intended usage?
-hpa
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2006-07-31 16:19 ` [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-31 20:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-07-31 21:00 ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-08-01 2:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-01 2:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 3:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-01 4:25 ` Jan Kratochvil
2006-08-01 9:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-01 9:43 ` Jan Kratochvil
2006-08-01 11:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-04 21:08 ` Don Zickus
2006-08-04 21:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-04 23:43 ` Don Zickus
2006-08-05 7:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-05 16:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 17:44 ` Don Zickus
2006-08-07 18:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 23:57 ` Don Zickus
2006-08-08 5:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-08 19:36 ` Don Zickus
2006-08-09 20:06 ` Don Zickus
2006-08-10 6:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-10 13:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-10 17:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-10 18:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-10 20:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-11 21:25 ` Don Zickus
2006-08-12 7:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-12 15:25 ` Don Zickus
2006-08-12 19:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-13 20:06 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-13 21:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-14 16:51 ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-08-14 17:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-08-14 18:11 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-14 19:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-14 19:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-14 19:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-14 19:57 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-14 20:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-14 20:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-14 21:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-14 20:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-08 23:36 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-25 20:16 ` Vivek Goyal
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