"Magnus Damm" <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Vivek,
>
> On 10/5/06, Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> 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,
Ok. There does not appear anything here that is not page aligned. So
it looks like something is triggering a kexec-tools bug.
Eric
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