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This adds vmm support to kexec-tool for ia64. This is annalogous
to the same feature that is present in the latest version of elilo.
It is a method of booting a vmm (hypervisor) such as Xen.
Essentially it works as follows.
* If the --vmm argument is not provided, then the kernel is booted as normal,
no changes
* Else, the image specified by --vmm is placed loaded into the elf
segments, where the Linux kernel image would otherwise have gone.
And the Linux kernel image, allong with its length is loaded into a
seprate segment, and passed as new entry at the end of the boot parameters.
This is somewhat similar to how initramfs/initramd images are passed
to a booting kernel, and can work in conjunction with that feature.
On boot (or in this case on kexec) the vmm (hypervisor) will be
loaded instead of a Linux kernel, and the hypervisor will then load up
the Linux kernel as it sees fit.
This is needed in order for kexec from Xen to Xen, using the
port of kexec to Xen that I am working on, to work.
I am not entirely fond of this design, and i think that developing
an ia64 variant of multiboot would be much nicer. However it is
an existing method that is currently in widespread use through
its incarntation in elilo. And if multiboot is added in future,
it can be done as a separate boot method, and thus orthogonal to this
patch.
In order to use this code a number of other changes are needed,
in particular:
1. Xen and the corresponding Linux Kernel needs to be patched with
the port of kexec to ia64-xen that I have been working on.
I will post the latest version of these patches to xen-devel
shortly.
2. The currently hardcoded PAGE_OFFSET value in purgatory needs
to be changed from the Linux value to the Xen value. I will
post a very hackish, definately not to be released, patch
after this patch which includes a comment that explains this problem
more clearly.
Also, xen->linux and linux->xen is still very much work in progress due
to the problem described at the following link
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ia64/14995
However, from an infastructure point of view I think it would be good to
apply this code, so that kexec-tool is one step closer to being able to
support vmms (hypervisors). The patch does not alter any existing
behaviour, it just adds a new feature. Bugs asside, the only real danger
seems to be confusion for end-users, perhaps we could comment out the help
text to hide the feature from the lay user, or attach a big fat warning to it.
Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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SN platform support PIO in a different way to generic IA64 platform. It
does not support most of the legacy I/O ports.
Give an --noio option to kexec-tools to disable I/O in purgatory code.
This patch also removed an unused io.h in kexec-tools.
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Edited to consistently use tabs instead of spaces for intentation,
remove one instance of trailing whitespace, and fix indentation
of noio line in options[].
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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without this patch, crash tool will not able to analyze efi memmap of
first kernel from vmcore file.
This patch is against kexec-tools-1.101 with kdump10 patch.
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Removed bogus fragments caused by whitespace addition
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 19:50, Welterlen Benoit wrote:
> Zou Nan hai wrote:
> > The ia64 kdump patch is in 2 parts.
> >
> > the kexec-kdump-ia64-2.6.16.patch should apply on top of the previous
> > kexec patch by Khalid in Tony's test tree.
> >
> > the kexec-tools-kdump-ia64.patch should apply to kexec-tools-1.101
> > with kexec-tools-1.101-kdump.patch
> >
> >
> > To test it.
> > Build first SMP kernel with KEXEC and KDUMP enabled.
> >
> > Boot it with kernel parameter "crashkernel=XXX@YYY"
> > means reserver XXX from YYY for crashdumping.
> > Build an UP kernel with KEXEC KDUMP VMCORE enabled.
> > load this kernel as a crashdumping kernel
> > kexec -p vmlinux.gz --initrd=initrd --append="...."
> >
> > trigger a crash,
> > maybe "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger"
> > after the crash kernel boots,
> > cp /proc/vmcore core
> >
> > gdb first_kernel_vmlinux core
> >
> > please test and review.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
> >
> >
> > https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
> >
>
> Hello Nan hai,
>
> I tried your patches. It seems that the kexec-tools-kdump-ia64.patch
> file can not be applied after the latest release of kexec-tools
> http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/patches/1.101-kdump9/kexec-tools-1.101-kdump9.patch
>
> I modified it for that. (attached file).
>
> I have a question about kdump :
>
> When the second kernel is loaded, kexec checks if the segments of the
> new kernel are in the reserved memory
>
> valid_memory_range in kexec/kexec.c :
> if ((send > mem_max) || (sstart < mem_min)) return 0;
>
> but mem_min and mem_max are defined by the XXX@YYY argument of the
> first kernel.
> For me, with 512@512 :
> more /proc/iomem
> ...
> 049cc000-77ffffff : System RAM
> 20000000-3fffffff : Crash kernel
> ...
> So, I can not load the second kernel : Invalid memory segment
> 0x4000000 - 0x469ffff
>
> When I set 64@64 argument for the first kernel, the checking is ok,
> but I have another issue :
> kexec_load failed: Cannot assign requested address
> entry = 0x80020 flags = 320001
> nr_segments = 6
> segment[0].buf = 0x6000000000021b90
> segment[0].bufsz = 20
> segment[0].mem = (nil)
> segment[0].memsz = 10000
> segment[1].buf = 0x60000000000222d0
> segment[1].bufsz = 10638
> segment[1].mem = 0x80000
> segment[1].memsz = 20000
> segment[2].buf = 0x2000000003b50010
> segment[2].bufsz = 23473c
> segment[2].mem = 0x100000
> segment[2].memsz = 240000
> segment[3].buf = 0x20000000002f0010
> segment[3].bufsz = 692dd8
> segment[3].mem = 0x4000000
> segment[3].memsz = 6a0000
> segment[4].buf = 0x2000000000990010
> segment[4].bufsz = 42c8
> segment[4].mem = 0x46a0000
> segment[4].memsz = 10000
> segment[5].buf = 0x20000000009a0010
> segment[5].bufsz = 17c3ec
> segment[5].mem = 0x46b0000
> segment[5].memsz = 2d0000
>
>
> Segments of the second kernel are the same than the first one
> (0x0000000004000000, 0x00000000046a0000 ...)
> We can not change the PHYSICAL_START as in other architectures (x86,
> x86_64, powerpc).
>
> So, I don't understand how it should work. Can you please have some
> explanation on this ?
>
> Thank you very much !
>
> Best regards,
>
> Benoit Welterlen
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
I modify the patch based on this one, fixed some bugs in it.
please test.
Thanks
Zou Nan hai
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
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This patch adds support for kexec-tools on ia64. This patch applies on
top of -kdump7 patch from <http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/>.
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
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