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Currently the kexec_file_load() support for arm64 doesn't allow
handling zlib compressed (i.e. Image.gz) image.
Since most distributions use 'make zinstall' rule inside
'arch/arm64/boot/Makefile' to install the arm64
Image.gz compressed file inside the boot destination directory (for e.g.
/boot), currently we cannot use kexec_file_load() to load vmlinuz (or
Image.gz):
# file /boot/vmlinuz
/boot/vmlinuz: gzip compressed data, was "Image", <..snip..>, max
compression, from Unix, original size 21945120
Now, since via kexec_file_load() we pass the 'fd' of Image.gz
(compressed file) via the following command line ...
# kexec -s -l /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname
-r`.img --reuse-cmdline
... kernel returns -EINVAL error value, as it is not able to locate
the magic number =0x644d5241, which is expected in the 64-byte header
of the decompressed kernel image.
We can fix this in user-space kexec-tools, which handles an
'Image.gz' being passed via kexec_file_load(), using an approach
as follows:
a). Copy the contents of Image.gz to a temporary file.
b). Decompress (gunzip-decompress) the contents inside the
temporary file.
c). Pass the 'fd' of the temporary file to the kernel space. So
basically the kernel space still gets a decompressed kernel
image to load via kexec-tools
I tested this patch for the following three use-cases:
1. Uncompressed Image file:
#kexec -s -l Image --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img --reuse-cmdline
2. Signed Image file:
#kexec -s -l Image.signed --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img --reuse-cmdline
3. zlib compressed Image.gz file:
#kexec -s -l /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img --reuse-cmdline
Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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With this patch, kexec_file_load() system call is supported.
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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This patch adds support to use binary image ie arch/arm64/boot/Image with
kdump.
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
[takahiro.akashi@linaro.org: a bit reworked]
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Tested-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Tested-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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EFAILED is defined "-1" and so we don't need to negate it as a return value.
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Tested-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Tested-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
[Reworked and cleaned up]
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Tested-By: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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Add kexec reboot support for ARM64 platforms.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Tested-By: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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