On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 05:07:24PM +0800, WANG Chao wrote: > On 08/18/14 at 10:57am, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > > I think kexec is broken with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y. Chao had raised > > this issue some time back when this option was introduced. I don't > > remember the details though that why it is broken. > > The following fix the problem for kdump case: > > commit 0d52644 > Author: WANG Chao <chaowang at redhat.com> > Date: Fri Mar 28 15:05:00 2014 +0800 > > x86, kaslr: add alternative way to locate kernel text mapping area > > > For kexec case, it hangs in purgatory: > > [ 556.859384] kexec: Starting new kernel > I'm in purgatory Chao, Do you know why does it hang in purgatory in case of kexec? Thanks Vivek