Hi Kristian, Sorry, I missed this mail. Are you still on it, or it is solved? On Thursday 06 April 2017 09:47 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use kexec on ARM. I'm using LEDE 17.01 with their > ipq806x target on various boards of this type. > > I've followed many threads and a bit on the history of kexec on ARM > because I'm running into a strange problem: > > root at LEDE:/tmp# kexec -d -t uImage --dtb=C2600-uImage.dtb > --command-line="" -l C2600-uImage > Try gzip decompression. > Try LZMA decompression. > lzma_decompress_file: read on C2600-uImage of 65536 bytes failed > kernel: 0xb6d27010 kernel_size: 0x1eb76e > MEMORY RANGES > 00012028b6d27010-bea6aee700000004 (0) How does kexec-tools see above memory ranges? As per your /proc/iomem, it should have been 42000000-5fffffff (0) Can you put some extra debug print in your code and check why do you have above behavior? ~Pratyush > zImage header: 0x016f2818 0x00000000 0x001e5cd0 > zImage size 0x1e5cd0, file size 0x1eb72e > Could not find a free area of memory of 0x1edcd0 bytes... > Cannot load C2600-uImage > root at LEDE:/tmp# cat /proc/iomem > 00108000-00108fff : /soc/rpm at 108000 > 00700000-00700fff : /soc/qfprom at 700000 > 00800000-00803fff : /soc/pinmux at 800000 > 00900000-00903fff : /soc/clock-controller at 900000 > 02011000-02011fff : /soc/clock-controller at 2011000 > 02088000-02088fff : /soc/clock-controller at 2088000 > 0208a000-0208a0ff : /soc/timer at 200a000 > 02098000-02098fff : /soc/clock-controller at 2098000 > 08000000-081fffff : ath > 10000000-10007fff : /soc/usb30 at 1/dwc3 at 10000000 > 10000000-10007fff : /soc/usb30 at 1/dwc3 at 10000000 > 1000c100-1000ccff : /soc/usb30 at 1/dwc3 at 10000000 > 100f8800-100f882f : /soc/phy at 100f8800 > 100f8830-100f885f : /soc/phy at 100f8830 > 11000000-11007fff : /soc/usb30 at 0/dwc3 at 11000000 > 11000000-11007fff : /soc/usb30 at 0/dwc3 at 11000000 > 1100c100-1100ccff : /soc/usb30 at 0/dwc3 at 11000000 > 110f8800-110f882f : /soc/phy at 110f8800 > 110f8830-110f885f : /soc/phy at 110f8830 > 16300000-163000ff : /soc/gsbi at 16300000 > 16340000-16340fff : msm_serial > 18300000-183fffff : /soc/dma at 18300000 > 1a200000-1a2000ff : /soc/gsbi at 1a200000 > 1a280000-1a280fff : /soc/gsbi at 1a200000/spi at 1a280000 > 1a500000-1a5001ff : /soc/rng at 1a500000 > 1b500000-1b500fff : dbi > 1b502000-1b50207f : elbi > 1b600000-1b6000ff : parf > 1b700000-1b700fff : dbi > 1b702000-1b70207f : elbi > 1b800000-1b8000ff : parf > 2e000000-2e1fffff : ath > 37200000-373fffff : /soc/ethernet at 37200000 > 37400000-375fffff : /soc/ethernet at 37400000 > 42000000-5fffffff : System RAM > 42208000-4278de77 : Kernel code > 427c4000-4283ab77 : Kernel data > root at LEDE:/tmp# uname -a > Linux LEDE 4.4.53 #0 SMP Fri Mar 17 12:56:58 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux > root at LEDE:/tmp# > > I've tried every possible combination of uImage/zImage (with and > without initramfs, etc) and always end up with the same error. I've > compiled my own LEDE 17.01 image with the following LEDE options > enabled: > > grep -i kexec .config > CONFIG_KERNEL_KEXEC=y > CONFIG_PACKAGE_kexec-tools=y > CONFIG_KEXEC_TOOLS_kdump=y > CONFIG_KEXEC_ZLIB=y > CONFIG_KEXEC_LZMA=y > > I've also updated my local build to use kexec-tools-2.0.14 but > always the same result. What else should I be looking at? > > Thanks! >