Re: 2.6.19-rc1: kexec broken on x86_64

From: Magnus Damm
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 09:57:18 EST


Hi Vivek,

On 10/5/06, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:28:35PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> Kexec is broken on x86_64 under 2.6.19-rc1.
>
> Or rather - kexec works ok under 2.6.19-rc1, but something related to
> the vmlinux format has probably changed and kexec-tools fails to load
> a vmlinux from 2.6.19-rc1.
>
> Loading bzImage works as usual, but vmlinux does not load properly.
>
> The kexec binary fails with the following message:
>
> Overlapping memory segments at 0x351000
> sort_segments failed
> / #
>

Hi Magnus,

Can you please post the readelf -l output of the vmlinux you are trying
to load. That's will give some indication if the segments are really
overlapping in vmlinux or is it some processing bug at kexec-tools part.

Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
Entry point 0x100100
There are 4 program headers, starting at offset 64

Program Headers:
Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr
FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align
LOAD 0x0000000000100000 0xffffffff80100000 0x0000000000100000
0x00000000001a4888 0x00000000001a4888 R E 100000
LOAD 0x00000000002a5000 0xffffffff802a5000 0x00000000002a5000
0x000000000008e086 0x00000000000c1504 RWE 100000
LOAD 0x0000000000400000 0xffffffffff600000 0x00000000002fd000
0x0000000000000c08 0x0000000000000c08 RWE 100000
NOTE 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 R 8

Section to Segment mapping:
Segment Sections...
00 .text __ex_table .rodata .pci_fixup __ksymtab __ksymtab_gpl
__ksymtab_unused __ksymtab_strings __param
01 .data .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly
.data.init_task .data.page_aligned .init.text .init.data .init.setup
.initcall.init .con_initcall.init .altinstructions
.altinstr_replacement .exit.text .init.ramfs .bss
02 .vsyscall_0 .xtime_lock .vxtime .vgetcpu_mode .sys_tz
.sysctl_vsyscall .xtime .jiffies .vsyscall_1 .vsyscall_2 .vsyscall_3
03

Thanks,

/ magnus
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