> On 29/07/2019, 07:02, "Bhupesh Sharma" <bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:>
> Hi Maikel,
>
> I have a couple of queries (so that I can help you better). Please see
> them in-line:
>
> On 07/24/2019 02:43 PM, Maikel Coenen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have met an issue during loading a new kernel with Kexec on an ARMv5 SoC. The kernel is a 4.19 with Gzip compression but during loading Kexec does not recognize the compression.
> >
> > If I load the new kernel and dtb with:
> >
> > kexec -l /boot/zImage -d --dtb=/boot/u-boot.dtb
>
> Can you please show the output of the following command:
> $ file /boot/zImage
zImage: Linux kernel ARM boot executable zImage (little-endian)
I also performed a binwalk with following output:
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 0x0 Linux kernel ARM boot executable zImage (little-endian)
16424 0x4028 gzip compressed data, maximum compression, from Unix, last modified: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (null date)
> Also can you please make sure that the zImage has the right gzip header
> : magic header 0x1f, 0x8b (\037 \213)
As you can see in the binwalk output, is the magic header found at 0x4028. This because of the zImage header.
When I check the zImage manually, it is indeed at that location.
> > The output is:
> >
> > Try gzip decompression.
> > Try LZMA decompression.
> > lzma_decompress_file: read on /boot/zImage of 65536 bytes failed
> > kernel: 0xb6a68008 kernel_size: 0x494d30
> > MEMORY RANGES
> > 0000000000000000-000000000fffffff (0)
> > zImage header: 0x016f2818 0x00000000 0x00494d30
> > zImage size 0x494d30, file size 0x494d30
> > kexec_load: entry = 0x8000 flags = 0x280000
> > nr_segments = 2
> > segment[0].buf = 0xb6a68008
> > segment[0].bufsz = 0x494d30
> > segment[0].mem = 0x8000
> > segment[0].memsz = 0x495000
> > segment[1].buf = 0x1fcf060
> > segment[1].bufsz = 0x245b
> > segment[1].mem = 0x16f2000
> > segment[1].memsz = 0x3000
> >
> > Looking at the debug, the function gzdirect returns “1” which indicates the kernel compression is not of gzip but I definitely use gzip.
> > I also tested it with LZMA compression and uImage instead of zImage but all with the same outcome.
> >
> > To be complete, I use Kexec-tools 2.0.19 and zlib 1.2.11.
> >
> > Did I implement something wrong or how can I debug this further?
>
> I don't have a armv5 hardware and my attempt to setup a qemu + buildroot
> setup for ARMv5 (926t) lead to a failure to boot the latest upstream kernel.
>
> I will try to fix up the setup and come back with more details.
> In the meanwhile if you can share the above, I can have further look at
> the same.
Thanks!
> Thanks,
> Bhupesh
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