Re: [PATCH v12 10/16] arm64: kexec_file: load initrd and device-tree
From: AKASHI Takahiro
Date: Fri Jul 27 2018 - 01:36:25 EST
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 02:34:55PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Akashi,
>
> On 24/07/18 07:57, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > load_other_segments() is expected to allocate and place all the necessary
> > memory segments other than kernel, including initrd and device-tree
> > blob (and elf core header for crash).
> > While most of the code was borrowed from kexec-tools' counterpart,
> > users may not be allowed to specify dtb explicitly, instead, the dtb
> > presented by the original boot loader is reused.
> >
> > arch_kimage_kernel_post_load_cleanup() is responsible for freeing arm64-
> > specific data allocated in load_other_segments().
>
> Since v11 you've renamed struct kimage_arch's dtb_buf as dtb, but not changed
> the struct. This series doesn't build until patch 12 where you fix it. This will
> cause anyone trying to bisect through here a problem.
Right. My last-minute change introduced this screw-up.
I will double-check at v13.
Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> > index e17f0529a882..026f7e408f0c 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
>
> > +struct kimage_arch {
> > + void *dtb_buf;
> > + unsigned long dtb_mem;
> > +};
>
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> > index c38a8048ed00..b28fbb0659c9 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
>
> > +int arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image)
> > +{
> > + vfree(image->arch.dtb);
> > + image->arch.dtb = NULL;
> > +
> > + return kexec_image_post_load_cleanup_default(image);
> > +}
>