On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:04:19PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Now we have limit kdump reseved 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 high acccording > to new added boot header fields. So does this allow me to load other segments also above 4G? (purgatory, setup/bootparams, command line etc). I remember that purgaotry has some 32bit relocations so had to be loaded below 2G. Thanks Vivek > > Yinghai Lu (8): > Add min/max macro > x86: add boot header member for version 2.12 > add mem64_min/max control > Move out mem_min/max checking in locate_hole > seperate checking 64bit mem range > debug print out for add_buf > x86: put ramdisk high for 64bit bzImage > x86: put 64bit bzImage high > > include/x86/x86-linux.h | 20 ++++++++++- > kexec/add_buffer.c | 9 ++++- > kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c | 32 ++++++++++++----- > kexec/arch/ppc/include/types.h | 12 ------ > kexec/kexec.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > kexec/kexec.h | 21 +++++++++++- > 7 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.7.7
