Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:55:13 +0100 | | From | Jens Axboe <> | | Subject | Re: kexec boot regression |
| |
On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > >> Jens Axboe wrote: > > >>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > >>>> Jens Axboe wrote: > > >>>>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > >>>>>> [PATCH] x86/pci: intel ioh bus num reg accessing fix > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> it is above 0x100, so if mmconf is not enable, need to skip it > > >>>>> This works, it kexecs kernels fine. But since 2.6.32 doesn't have the > > >>>>> mmconf problem to begin with, are we now just working around the issue? > > >>>>> SRAT still reports issues, numa doesn't work. > > >>>> that patch will be bullet proof... we need it. > > >>>> > > >>>> also still need to figure out why memmap range is not passed properly. > > >>>> > > >>>> do you mean 2.6.32 kexec 2.6.32 it have worked mmconf and numa in > > >>>> second kernel? > > >>> Yes, 2.6.32 booted and 2.6.32 kexec'ed works just fine, no SRAT > > >>> complaints and NUMA works fine. > > >> do you need > > >> memmap=62G@4G > > >> in this case? > > > > > > Yes, I've needed that always. > > > > good, > > > > can you enable debug option in kexec to see why kexec can not pass > > whole 38? range to second kernel? > > Not getting any output so far, -d doesn't do much. Poking around in the > source...
OK, cold boot and kexec 2.0.1 gets all 39 ranges passed properly to kexec'ed kernels. Since the older kexec stopped at range 30 (31 ranges total), that smells like just a kexec bug. Retesting -git...
-- Jens Axboe
|  |