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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

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-14 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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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2006-08-09 12:40                       ` [Fastboot] " Bodo Eggert

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