Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org> says:
From: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Hi!
For over a year ago, Daniel and I was testing the V2 of Song's series.
I also promised to take the V2, that had been sitting on the lists for
too long, to rebase it on a new kernel, and re-test it.
One year later, here's the V3! ;-)
There are no changes from V2 other, than some simple checkpatch
cleanups.
Song's original cover:
| This series makes the kexec_file_load() syscall support to load
| Image binary file. At the same time, corresponding support for
| kexec-tools had been pushed to my repo[2].
|
| Now, we can leverage that kexec-tools and this series to use the
| kexec_load() or kexec_file_load() syscall to boot both vmlinux and
| Image file, as seen in these combo tests:
|
| ```
| 1. kexec -l vmlinux
| 2. kexec -l Image
| 3. kexec -s -l vmlinux
| 4. kexec -s -l Image
| ```
Notably, kexec-tools has still not made it upstream. I've prepared a
branch on my GH [3], that I indend to post ASAP. That branch is a
collection of fixes/features, including Song's userland Image loading.
The V2 is here [2], and V1 [1].
I've tested the kexec-file/Image on qemu-rv64, with following
combinations:
* ACPI/UEFI
* DT/UEFI
* DT
both "regular" kexec (-s + -e), and crashkernels (-p).
Note that there are two purgatory patches that has to be present (part
of -rc1, so all good):
commit
28093cfef5dd ("riscv/kexec_file: Handle R_RISCV_64 in purgatory relocator")
commit
3f7023171df4 ("riscv/purgatory: 4B align purgatory_start")
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/
20230914020044.
1397356-1-songshuaishuai@tinylab.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/
20231016092006.
3347632-1-songshuaishuai@tinylab.org/
[3] https://github.com/bjoto/kexec-tools/tree/rv-on-master
* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/
20250409193004.643839-1-bjorn@kernel.org:
riscv: kexec_file: Support loading Image binary file
riscv: kexec_file: Split the loading of kernel and others
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409193004.643839-1-bjorn@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>