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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): commit28093cfef5("riscv/kexec_file: Handle R_RISCV_64 in purgatory relocator") commit3f7023171d("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>
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