On Monday 30 March 2015 05:56 PM, Pratyush Anand wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > On Saturday 28 March 2015 02:41 AM, Pratyush Anand wrote: >> Hi Geoff, >> >> On Friday 27 March 2015 10:53 PM, Geoff Levand wrote: >>> Hi Pratyush, >>> >>> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 15:55 +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote: >>>> So with following changes kexec load seems to complete without any >>>> error. However, kexec reboot does not work yet, Nothing after bye >>>> message :( (1st kernel booted with maxcpus=1) >>> >>> 'Bye!' doesn't mean much, other than the first kernel has >>> almost shutdown. I recommend for debugging you either define >>> ARM64_DEBUG_PORT for the kexec-tools build, or have a suitable >>> earlyprintk= on the kernel command line. See the read_sink() >>> routine in kexec-arm64.c. >>> >> > > Problem seems to be related to compilation of purgatory code. > > For example see here: > > 70 0000000000000120 <purgatory>: > 71 120: a9bf7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp,#-16]! > 72 124: 910003fd mov x29, sp > 73 128: 58000100 ldr x0, 148 <purgatory+0x28> > 74 12c: 94000000 bl 544 <printf> > > > So, when it executes instruction at address 0x128 in above code, it does > not contain correct address of data where "I'm in purgatory" is located. > It seems that code has been compiled as 32 bit. > > PC: 0x400415012c , PSTATE: 0x400003c9 > (gdb) monitor reg x0 > x0 (/64): 0x00000000041568F8 > (gdb) monitor mdw 0x00000000041568F8 4 > 0x41568f8: fffefffe fffefffe fffefffe fffefffe : ................ > > The buffer location passed to printf is not correct. > > Similarly, even if ARM64_DEBUG_PORT is programmed with correct UART TX > register, arm64_sink is not modified correctly when elf_rel_set_symbol > is called. > > So correct data is at 0x00000040041568F8 and not 0x00000000041568F8 > > (gdb) monitor mdw 0x00000040041568F8 4 > 0x40041568f8: 206d2749 70206e69 61677275 79726f74 : I'm in purgatory > > > should n't the pc relative instruction like adrp be generated instead of > ldr. > > What does -mcmodel=large cflag do? May be it is causing to generate such > instruction. > Following changes allows purgatory to execute. diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c index 8df66f5c8273..4365bb4087ad 100644 --- a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c +++ b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c @@ -993,8 +993,8 @@ void machine_apply_elf_rel(struct mem_ehdr *ehdr, unsigned long r_type, # define R_AARCH64_CALL26 283 #endif - uint32_t *location = (uint32_t *)ptr; - uint32_t data = *location; + uint64_t *location = (uint64_t *)ptr; + uint64_t data = *location; const char *type = NULL; switch(r_type) { @@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ 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 %lx->%lx\n", __func__, type, data, *location); } So I get following and then nothing.. [ 162.087569] Bye! I'm in purgatory purgatory: kernel_entry: 0000004000280000 purg Hopefully, I will be able to debug it further.will come back. ~Pratyush