Re: [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot/compressed/64: Handle 5-level paging boot if kernel is above 4G

From: Andrei Vagin
Date: Tue Feb 13 2018 - 03:42:03 EST


On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:08:16AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:51:56PM -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> > Hi Kirill,
> >
> > Something is wrong in this patch.
>
> Was it bisected to exactly this patch? Is the previous one fine?

Yes. Yes.
>
> > We regularly run CRIU tests on linux-next, and yesterday I found that a
> > kernel didn't boot. We run this tests in Travis-CI, and we don't have
> > access to kernel logs. I tried to reproduce the problem localy, but I
> > failed.
>
> Do you know anything about host kernel which handles kexec?


Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux Version 4.4.0-51-generic

+ uname -a
Linux travis-job-43f4b617-65d3-4621-bd05-911efa0d69df 4.4.0-51-generic #72~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 24 19:22:30 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linu

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> Kirill A. Shutemov