Hi Everyone, there was some healthy discussion around the previous versions of this series, but so far none on this version. Have we reached consensus? On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 02:09:49PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Now we have limit kdump reserved under 896M, because kexec has the limitation. > and also bzImage need to stay under 4g. > > kernel parts changes could be found at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git for-x86-boot > > here patches are for kexec tools to load bzImage and ramdisk above 4G > acccording to new added boot header fields. > > -v3: address review from Eric to use locate_hole at first. > use xloadflags instead. > -v4: remove the restriction about bzImage not crossing GB boundary. > add real-mode fix for bzImage. > add --entry-32bit and --real-mode for skip bzImage64. > -v5: use USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS bit in xloadflags. > > Yinghai Lu (5): > kexec, x86: add boot header member for version 2.12 > kexec, x86: clean boot_params area for entry-32bit path > kexec, x86: Fix bzImage real-mode booting > kexec, x86: put ramdisk/cmd_line above 4G for 64bit bzImage > kexec, x86_64: Load bzImage64 above 4G > > include/x86/x86-linux.h | 32 +++- > kexec/arch/i386/include/arch/options.h | 4 +- > kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c | 80 +++++++-- > kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c | 26 ++- > kexec/arch/x86_64/Makefile | 1 + > kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-bzImage64.c | 335 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c | 1 + > kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.h | 5 + > 8 files changed, 462 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-bzImage64.c > > -- > 1.7.7 >
