Re: kexec boot regression

[Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>> [   13.018720] PCI: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-ff] at [mem 0x80000000-0x8fffffff] (base 0x80000000)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [   13.100724] [Firmware Bug]: PCI: MMCONFIG at [mem 0x80000000-0x8fffffff] not reserved in ACPI motherboard resources
>>>>> On a "normal" non-kexec boot, I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> [   12.173583] PCI: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-ff] at [mem 0x80000000-0x8fffffff] (base 0x80000000)
>>>>> [   12.184075] PCI: MMCONFIG at [mem 0x80000000-0x8fffffff] reserved in E820
>>>>> [   12.216874] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
>>>>>
>>>> can you run following scripts in first kernel?
>>>>
>>>> cd /sys/firmware/memmap
>>>> for dir in * ; do
>>>>   start=$(cat $dir/start)
>>>>   end=$(cat $dir/end)
>>>>   type=$(cat $dir/type)
>>>>   printf "%016x-%016x (%s)\n" $start $[ $end +1] "$type" >> /tmp/memmap.txt
>>>> done
>>>>
>>>> and send out /tmp/memmap.txt
>>> Below.
>>>
>>>> what is your kexec tools version? could be too old?
>>> It says:
>>>
>>> kexec-tools-testing 20080324 released 24th March 2008
>>>
>>>
>>> 0000000000000000-0000000000098800 (System RAM)
>>> 0000000000098800-00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>>> 0000000079301000-0000000079303000 (reserved)
>>> 0000000079303000-0000000079305000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 0000000079305000-0000000079310000 (reserved)
>>> 0000000079310000-0000000079314000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 0000000079314000-0000000079319000 (reserved)
>>> 0000000079319000-0000000079336000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 0000000079336000-0000000079358000 (reserved)
>>> 0000000079358000-0000000079388000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 0000000079388000-00000000793c9000 (reserved)
>>> 00000000793c9000-000000007968f000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 00000000000e0000-0000000000100000 (reserved)
>>> 000000007968f000-00000000796bb000 (reserved)
>>> 00000000796bb000-00000000799d8000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 00000000799d8000-0000000079bd8000 (ACPI Non-volatile Storage)
>>> 0000000079bd8000-0000000079d8b000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 0000000079d8b000-0000000079d8c000 (reserved)
>>> 0000000079d8c000-0000000079dc8000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 0000000079dc8000-0000000079dcb000 (reserved)
>>> 0000000079dcb000-0000000079e1c000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 0000000079e1c000-0000000079e87000 (reserved)
>>> 0000000079e87000-000000007bd5f000 (ACPI Tables)
>>> 0000000000100000-0000000078c59000 (System RAM)
>>> 000000007bd5f000-000000007be4f000 (reserved)
>>> 000000007be4f000-000000007bf87000 (ACPI Tables)
>> so following ranges are not passed to second kernel by kexec?
> 
> I have the following addition to my kexec kernel command line:
> 
> memmap=62G@4G
> 
> since that last big 62G RAM entry doesn't show up without it, that's why
> you see a user defined e820 map as well in the boot logs. So a kexec'ed
> kernel is missing at least that entry.
> 
> I just tried with the latest and greatest kexec-tools (2.0.1) and
> there's no difference.

current kernel kexec 2.6.32 make numa and mmconf working on second kernel?

YH