On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:09:44AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Dan Aloni wrote: > > It happens at 100% of the times I invoke kexec. > > > > > > Can you provide a commandline which triggers this? I'm completely > ignorant wrt kexec.
I managed to verify that this problem can be reproduced with the 2.6.16.60 tree. Also, it's worth to note that with '-no-kvm' the kexec procedure works successfully and the second kernel executes. Please use the .config that that I attached to this mail, and also apply the patch I supplied (it fixes a build problem that 2.6.16 has with the newer binutils versions and x86_64). I use gcc-4.1.2 to build the kernel. Once you have the bzImage of that guest kernel, use a root filesystem and boot it straight into /bin/bash. Now, assuming that your guest rootfs has kexec-utils package installed, do the following: mount -t proc proc /proc kexec -l bzImage --command-line='ro root=/dev/hda1 init=/bin/bash' kexec -e BTW, if you use the serial console with the '-nographic' switch, then you might want to use kexec a little differently: kexec -l bzImage --command-line='ro root=/dev/hda1 init=/bin/bash console=ttyS0,115200' --serial=ttyS0 --serial-baud=115200 Good luck, -- Dan Aloni XIV, an IBM (R) company. http://www.xivstorage.com da-x (at) monatomic.org, dan (at) xiv.co.il
2.6.16.60-guest-config.gz
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diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/Makefile
index f89d96f..c9688fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ EXTRA_AFLAGS := -traditional -m32
# cannot use EXTRA_CFLAGS because base CFLAGS contains -mkernel which conflicts with
# -m32
CFLAGS := -m32 -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
+AFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
LDFLAGS := -m elf_i386
LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -Ttext $(IMAGE_OFFSET) -e startup_32 -m elf_i386
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c b/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c
index c44f5e2..bcdbaf1 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)
sz = sb.st_size;
fprintf (stderr, "System is %d kB\n", sz/1024);
sys_size = (sz + 15) / 16;
- /* 0x40000*16 = 4.0 MB, reasonable estimate for the current maximum */
- if (sys_size > (is_big_kernel ? 0x40000 : DEF_SYSSIZE))
+ /* 0x60000*16 = 6.0 MB, reasonable estimate for the current maximum */
+ if (sys_size > (is_big_kernel ? 0x60000 : DEF_SYSSIZE))
die("System is too big. Try using %smodules.",
is_big_kernel ? "" : "bzImage or ");
while (sz > 0) {
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