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Currently we hard-coded the first 640K area as backup area,
however, this is not correct on some system which has reserved
memory area in the first 640K:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 - 0000000000097000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000097000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
on such system we still mark all the first 640K as usable
in capture kernel, this will cause kernel panic.
The solution, pointed by Vivek, is that we can get the backup
area dynamically by reading /proc/iomem.
The reporter has tested this patch and it fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:32:56PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
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> I have found a couple of moments and have been able to
> catch up with most of the backlog of patches for kexec-tools.
> There are several details I need to follow up on, and there is
> some testing I want to do to make certain everything is working.
>
> The primary kexec-tools archive is:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/kexec-tools.git
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> An archive to hold versions before 1.101 is at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/kexec-tools-historic.git
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> So far I have all version in there since 1.0 except 1.9, 1.92, and 1.93
> if someone happens to have a copy point me at it and I will update the
> history.
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> Patches that hang out in quilt for a while can be annoying to import
> into git because their authorship information is not stored in an
> unambiguous way. git is general is much stricter about the format
> it's meta-data information is stored in.
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> Maneesh in kdump10 there were two patches in particular that I have
> not sorted out their who wrote them. If you could help me sort that
> out I would appreciate it.
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> ppc64-initrd-option.patch
> ppc64-kdump-device_tree-sort.patch
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> Before I make a release here is my list of things I intend to look at:
> - Why we have defined the location of the crash backup region twice.
Hi Eric,
Are you referring to BACKUP_REGION_START and BACKUP_START declarations?
I am not sure why did I do that, may be somehow I thought that purgatory
code is not sharing the header files with main kexec code base.
Please have a look at the patch attached for i386. If this looks
fine, I shall generate the patches for x86_64 and ppc64 too.
Thanks & Regards
Vivek
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
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o This patch adds the support for saving first 640k to the backup
region for x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Murali <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
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o This patch adds support for reserving space for backup region. Also adds code
in purgatory to copy the first 640K to backup region.
o Moved kexec_flags inside kexec_info structure.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
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