Re: [REGRESSION] kexec does firmware reboot in kernel v6.7.6

[Pavin Joseph <me@pavinjoseph.com>]

On 3/5/24 20:55, Steve Wahl wrote:
> In the meantime, if you want to try
> figuring out how to increase the memory allocated for kexec kernel
> purposes, that might correct the problem.

I tried all the options and variations possible in kexec. Don't know how 
useful this is but it seems there's a hard limit imposed by kexec on the 
size of the kernel image, irrespective of the format.

pavin@suse-laptop:~> sudo /usr/sbin/kexec --debug --kexec-syscall-auto 
--load '/usr/lib/modules/6.7.6-1-default/vmlinux' 
--initrd='/boot/initrd-6.7.6-1-default' 
--append='root=/dev/mapper/suse-system crashkernel=341M,high 
crashkernel=72M,low security=apparmor mitigations=auto'
Try gzip decompression.
Invalid memory segment 0x1000000 - 0x2c60fff
pavin@suse-laptop:~> file /usr/lib/modules/6.7.6-1-default/vmlinux
/usr/lib/modules/6.7.6-1-default/vmlinux: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, 
x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, 
BuildID[sha1]=cd9816be5099dbe04750b2583fe34462de6dcdca, not stripped

Kind regards,
Pavin Joseph.