Re: 4.17.x won't boot due to "x86/boot/compressed/64: Handle 5-level paging boot if kernel is above 4G"

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Jul 03 2018 - 07:01:11 EST


On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:59:48AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 07:01:28PM +0000, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 12:34:50PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > > Could you check if you can trigger the issue with my changes to config and
> > > > the way I run KVM?
> > >
> > > Yes, the issue still triggers in that case. I've also verified that the
> > > kernel boots normally with your qemu command if the commit is reverted.
> >
> > Hm. What toolchain do you use?
>
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 05:15:59PM -0400, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> > 4.17 kernels built with the CoreOS Container Linux toolchain and kconfig,

I've built the kernel with toolchain from CoreOS alpha (gcc-7.3.0,
binutils-2.29.1). Still cannot trigger the problem.

Benjamin, could you share the kernel image?

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Kirill A. Shutemov