On 04/10/2013 10:46 PM, Li Haifeng wrote: > 2013/4/10 Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>: >> On 04/10/2013 03:35 AM, Li Haifeng wrote: >>> Hi, everyone. >>> >>> Recently, I try to run kdump on pandaboard ES with omap4460. After >>> load capture kernel by "kexec -l" and execute "kexec -e", the serial >>> port output "Starting new kernel" and "Bye", then the system hangs up. >>> >>> I have tried the upstream Linux Kernel v3.4 and v3.8. All are with this issue. >> >> This is a shot in the dark. I assume you have SMP enabled. Can you use >> hotplug to remove all CPUs other than CPU0, so that the kexec happens on >> the boot CPU? That is certainly necessary for kexec to work correctly on >> Tegra. > > Thanks for your attention. > > I do disable SMP feature. And the .config file for v3.8 could be found here: > http://pastehtml.com/view/cylyrfejt.txt ... > The output: > [ 57.373687] Starting new kernel > [ 57.377044] Bye! > > Then system hangs. Oh well, you've exhausted my knowledge I'm afraid! I can only suggesting trying to enable earlyprintk and/or uncompressor debug in the kernel you're kexec'ing and see if that yields any clue. Either that, or JTAG!