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* [RFC] [PATCH 0/16] x86_64: Relocatable bzImage Support (V2)
@ 2006-11-13 16:21 Vivek Goyal
  2006-11-13 16:26 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/16] x86_64: Align data segment to page size boundary Vivek Goyal
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  0 siblings, 16 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Vivek Goyal @ 2006-11-13 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux kernel mailing list
  Cc: Reloc Kernel List, ebiederm, akpm, ak, hpa, magnus.damm, lwang,
	dzickus

Hi All,

Eric Biederman implemented the relocatable bzImage for x86_64 and posted
patches for comments quite some time back.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115443019026302&w=2

We have been testing the patches in RHEL kernels since then and things are
looking up. I think this is the time that patches can be included in -mm
and get more testing done and get rest of the issues sorted out.

Eric is currently held up with other things, so I have taken his patches
and forward ported to 2.6.19-rc5-git2. Did few cleanups and fixed few
bugs as faced in our testing. I have also accomodated the review comments
received last time.

These changes make a bzImage and vmlinux relocatable hence kernel can be
loaded at and run from a non-1MB location. These changes are especially
useful for kdump where a single kernel can be used both as production 
kernel and dump capture kernel hence making the life easier both for
distros and developers.

Following is a brief account of changes I have done since patches were
posted last time.

- Forward ported the changes to latest kernel.
- Extended bzImage protocol to handle relocatable kernel
- Dropped support for elf bzImage
- Dropped support for the serial debugging in decompressor code.
- Fixed a bug related to memory hotplug.
- Fixed a bug related to setting NX bit  (Thanks to larry woodman)
- Fixed a bug regarding jumping to secondary_startup_64 instead of
  assuming that align fills empty space with "nop".
- Fixed a bug regarding phys_base being put in initdata section.
- Fixed a but where bss was not being zeroed properly
- Reverted the change back to cotinue to compile the kernel for 2MB so
  that loaders loading vmlinux directly are not broken.
- Aligned data segment to 4K boundary to make kexec using vmlinux work.
- Tested to patch for making sure suspend/resume to/from memory is working.
  (Required due to ACPI wake up code changes)

Your comments/suggestions are welcome.

Thanks
Vivek

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2006-11-13 16:21 [RFC] [PATCH 0/16] x86_64: Relocatable bzImage Support (V2) Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:26 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/16] x86_64: Align data segment to page size boundary Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:28 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/16] x86_64: Assembly safe page.h and pgtable.h Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 17:17   ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-13 19:27     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-13 21:16     ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-14  1:46       ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-14  2:41         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-13 16:30 ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/16] x86_64: Kill temp_boot_pmds Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:31 ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/16] x86_64: Clean up the early boot page table Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:33 ` [RFC] [PATCH 5/16] x86_64: Fix earlyprintk to use standard ISA mapping Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:34 ` [RFC] [PATCH 6/16] x86_64: Modify copy_bootdata to to use virtual address Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:35 ` [RFC] [PATCH 7/16] x86_64: cleanup segments Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:40 ` [RFC] [PATCH 8/16] x86_64: Add EFER to the set registers saved by save_processor_state Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:42 ` [RFC] [PATCH 9/16] x86_64: 64bit PIC SMP trampoline Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 17:28   ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-13 16:43 ` [RFC] [PATCH 10/16] x86_64: 64bit PIC ACPI wakeup Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 17:22   ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-13 17:59     ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 18:13       ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-13 19:21         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-13 19:34           ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 19:57             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-13 23:01     ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-13 23:09       ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-15 21:07     ` [PATCH] x86_64: Move cpu long mode verification code to common file (was Re: [RFC] [PATCH 10/16] x86_64: 64bit PIC ACPI wakeup) Vivek Goyal
2006-11-15 22:54       ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-16 20:06         ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-14 16:30   ` [RFC] [PATCH 10/16] x86_64: 64bit PIC ACPI wakeup Pavel Machek
2006-11-14 21:36     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-14 21:40       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-11-14 23:43       ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-15  3:49         ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-15 17:26         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-15 18:29           ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-15 18:38           ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-14 23:17     ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-14 23:39       ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-15 21:24   ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-11-15 23:03     ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-16  0:28     ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-16 20:09       ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-16 20:53         ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-16 21:29           ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-16 21:51             ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-13 16:44 ` [RFC] [PATCH 11/16] x86_64: Modify discover_ebda to use virtual address Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:46 ` [RFC] [PATCH 12/16] x86_64: Remove the identity mapping as early as possible Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:47 ` [RFC] [PATCH 13/16] x86_64: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:48 ` [RFC] [PATCH 14/16] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:50 ` [RFC] [PATCH 15/16] x86_64: Relocatable kernel support Vivek Goyal
2006-11-13 16:51 ` [RFC] [PATCH 16/16] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage Vivek Goyal

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