Hello I am trying to use kexec on an armv5 board to load a crash kernel. Loading a non crash kernel works ok. bootargs for uboot are console=ttySAC0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait init=/linuxrc panic=2 mac=00:12:E5:04:81:93 crashkernel=60M@32M kexec version is 2.0.16 kexec -p -t zImage /mnt/zImage-ramdisk --append="console=ttySAC0,115200 root= /dev/mmcblk0p2 initrd rw rootwait init=/linuxrc panic=2 mac=00:12:E5:04:81:93 crashkernel=60M@32M" kexec documentation says that crashkernel for arm processors isn't required but when I tried to run kexec without this parameter it said it could not load it. I have played around with this code intensively trying to get it to work but alas it isn't Here is the output: # kexec -d -p -t zImage /mnt/zImage-ramdisk --append="console=ttySAC0,115200 ro ot=/dev/mmcblk0p2 initrd rw rootwait init=/linuxrc panic=2 mac=00:12:E5:04:81:93" Try gzip decompression. kernel: 0x402d1008 kernel_size: 0x69f928 MEMORY RANGES 0000000030000000-0000000033ffffff (0) 0000000038000000-000000003bffffff (0) zImage header: 0x016f2818 0x00000000 0x0069f928 zImage size 0x69f928, file size 0x69f928 Reserved memory ranges 0000000002000000-0000000005bfffff (0) Coredump memory ranges 0000000030000000-0000000033ffffff (0) 0000000038000000-000000003bffffff (0) kernel symbol _stext vaddr = c0008400 phys offset = 0x30000000, page offset = c0000000 Using 32-bit ELF core format get_crash_notes_per_cpu: crash_notes addr = 3061417c, size = 1024 Elf header: p_type = 4, p_offset = 0x3061417c p_paddr = 0x3061417c p_vaddr = 0x0 p_filesz = 0x400 p_memsz = 0x400 vmcoreinfo header: p_type = 4, p_offset = 0x30486dc0 p_paddr = 0x30486dc0 p_vaddr = 0x0 p_filesz = 0x1000 p_memsz = 0x1000 Elf header: p_type = 1, p_offset = 0x30000000 p_paddr = 0x30000000 p_vaddr = 0xc0000000 p_filesz = 0x4000000 p_memsz = 0x4000000 Elf header: p_type = 1, p_offset = 0x38000000 p_paddr = 0x38000000 p_vaddr = 0xc8000000 p_filesz = 0x4000000 p_memsz = 0x4000000 Could not find a free area of memory of 0x1000 bytes... locate_hole failed I have also tried with --mem-min and --mem-max arguements as well # cat /proc/iomem 02000000-05bfffff : Crash kernel 08000004-08000007 : dm9000 08000004-08000007 : dm9000 08000008-0800000b : dm9000 08000008-0800000b : dm9000 30000000-33ffffff : System RAM 30008000-3040e65b : Kernel text 3044c000-30490fff : Kernel data 38000000-3bffffff : System RAM 49000000-490000ff : s3c2410-ohci 49000000-490000ff : ohci_hcd 4a800000-4a800fff : s3c-sdhci.1 4a800000-4a800fff : mmc1 4ac00000-4ac00fff : s3c-sdhci.0 4ac00000-4ac00fff : mmc0 4c800000-4c803fff : s3c-fb 4c800000-4c803fff : s3c-fb 4e000000-4e0fffff : s3c2412-nand 4e000000-4e0fffff : s3c2412-nand 50000000-50003fff : s3c2440-uart.0 50000000-500000ff : s3c2440-uart 50004000-50007fff : s3c2440-uart.1 50004000-500040ff : s3c2440-uart 50008000-5000bfff : s3c2440-uart.2 50008000-500080ff : s3c2440-uart 5000c000-5000ffff : s3c2440-uart.3 5000c000-5000c0ff : s3c2440-uart 52000000-52100000 : s3c64xx-spi.0 52000000-52100000 : s3c64xx-spi 53000000-530003ff : s3c2410-wdt 54000000-54000fff : s3c2410-i2c 54000000-54000fff : s3c2440-i2c 55000000-550fffff : s3c2412-iis 5b000000-5b0fffff : samsung-ac97 5b000000-5b0fffff : ac97 #free total used free shared buffers Mem: 125452 21744 103708 0 1320 -/+ buffers: 20424 105028 Swap: 0 0 0 I tried messing around with the kexec to get the holes to align properly and this is the output kexec -p --mem-min=38000000 -t zImage /mnt/zImage-ramdisk --append="console=t tySAC0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 initrd rw rootwait init=/linuxrc panic=2 mac=0 0:12:E5:04:81:93" hole_size:1000, hole_align:100000,hole_min:2000000, hole_max5bfffff hole_end:-1 =============mem_ranges:0 mstart30000000 ******mem_ranges:0 mstart:30000000 mem_range[0].start:30000000 =============mem_ranges:0 mend33ffffff ******mem_ranges:0 mend:33ffffff mem_range[0].end:33ffffff =============mem_ranges:1 mstart38000000 ******mem_ranges:1 mstart:38000000 mem_range[1].start:38000000 =============mem_ranges:1 mend3bffffff ******mem_ranges:1 mend:3bffffff mem_range[1].end:3bffffff mem_range[0].start:30000000 mem_range[0].end:33ffffff start:30000000 mem_min:243d580 hole_min:2000000 end:33ffffff i:0 +++start:30000000 hole_align:100000 ===start:30000000 hole_align:100000 end > hole_max end:33ffffff - start:30000000 = size:3ffffff hole_end:ffffffff Align Down hole_base:33f00000 mem_range[1].start:38000000 mem_range[1].end:3bffffff start:38000000 mem_min:243d580 hole_min:2000000 end:3bffffff i:1 +++start:38000000 hole_align:100000 ===start:38000000 hole_align:100000 end > hole_max end:3bffffff - start:38000000 = size:3ffffff hole_end:ffffffff Align Down hole_base:3bf00000 last=3bf00fff base=3bf00000 memsz=1000 for loop mstart:30000000 sstart:3bf00000 mend:33ffffff send:3bf00fff mstart:30000000 sstart:3bf00000 mend:33ffffff send:3bf00fff return 1 last=4127fff base=4127000 memsz=1000 for loop mstart:30000000 sstart:4127000 mend:33ffffff send:4127fff mstart:30000000 sstart:4127000 mend:33ffffff send:4127fff for loop mstart:38000000 sstart:4127000 mend:3bffffff send:4127fff mstart:38000000 sstart:4127000 mend:3bffffff send:4127fff Out of loop failure 398 last=26a7fff base=2008000 memsz=6a0000 send > mem_max or sstart < mem_min398 for loop mstart:30000000 sstart:3bf00000 mend:33ffffff send:3bf00fff mstart:30000000 sstart:3bf00000 mend:33ffffff send:3bf00fff return 1 for loop mstart:30000000 sstart:4127000 mend:33ffffff send:4127fff mstart:30000000 sstart:4127000 mend:33ffffff send:4127fff for loop mstart:38000000 sstart:4127000 mend:3bffffff send:4127fff mstart:38000000 sstart:4127000 mend:3bffffff send:4127fff Out of loop failure kexec_load failed: Cannot assign requested address entry = 0x2008000 flags = 0x280001 nr_segments = 3 segment[0].buf = 0x4029a008 segment[0].bufsz = 0x69f928 segment[0].mem = 0x2008000 segment[0].memsz = 0x6a0000 segment[1].buf = 0x1b1b678 segment[1].bufsz = 0x48 segment[1].mem = 0x4127000 segment[1].memsz = 0x1000 segment[2].buf = 0x1b1b220 segment[2].bufsz = 0x400 segment[2].mem = 0x3bf00000 segment[2].memsz = 0x1000 Any help much appriciated -- -William Larson _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec