Hi Geoff I tested your patches. The macihne is using spin-table cpu enable method so I tried maxcpus=1 as you suggested. There's below issues for me, thoughts? 1. For acpi booting there's no /proc/device-tree so kexec can not find dtb to use. 2. adding "acpi=off" to 1st kernel boot cmdline, kexec load fails with error like below: machine_apply_elf_rel: ERROR Unknown type: 261 I did below hack then kexec load works fine, but `kexec -e` still does not work there's nothing more than "Disableing non-boot CPUS ...\n Bye!": diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c index 9db1c07..2df24f0 100644 --- a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c +++ b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c @@ -790,6 +790,10 @@ void machine_apply_elf_rel(struct mem_ehdr *ehdr, unsigned long r_type, # define R_AARCH64_ABS64 257 #endif +#if !defined(R_AARCH64_PREL32) +#define R_AARCH64_PREL32 261 +#endif + #if !defined(R_AARCH64_LD_PREL_LO19) # define R_AARCH64_LD_PREL_LO19 273 #endif @@ -806,6 +810,7 @@ void machine_apply_elf_rel(struct mem_ehdr *ehdr, unsigned long r_type, # define R_AARCH64_CALL26 283 #endif + uint64_t *location1 = (uint64_t *)ptr; uint32_t *location = (uint32_t *)ptr; uint32_t data = *location; const char *type = NULL; @@ -813,7 +818,11 @@ void machine_apply_elf_rel(struct mem_ehdr *ehdr, unsigned long r_type, switch(r_type) { case R_AARCH64_ABS64: type = "ABS64"; - *location += value; + *location1 += value; + break; + case R_AARCH64_PREL32: + type = "PREL32"; + *location += value - address; break; case R_AARCH64_LD_PREL_LO19: type = "LD_PREL_LO19"; @@ -839,7 +848,7 @@ void machine_apply_elf_rel(struct mem_ehdr *ehdr, unsigned long r_type, break; } - dbgprintf("%s: %s %x->%x\n", __func__, type, data, *location); + dbgprintf("%s: %s %x->%lx\n", __func__, type, data, (r_type == R_AARCH64_ABS64)? *location1: *location); } void arch_reuse_initrd(void) Thanks Dave