Bug 9682

Summary:	kexec refuses to boot
Product:	Other	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	other_other
Status:	RESOLVED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Severity:	normal	CC:	dhaval, hpa, protasnb, vgoyal
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.24-rc6	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-01-03 13:32:41 UTC

Subject         : kexec refuses to boot
Submitter       : Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/3/294
Handled-By      : Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Comment 1 Natalie Protasevich 2008-02-03 01:04:48 UTC

From Dhaval:
I can't seem to get the latest -mm (2.6.24-rc6-mm1) to boot with
kexec. It just gets stuck at "Starting new kernel".

It does boot normally when booted as the first kernel.

I went ahead and did the bisect, and

commit 7dd838ea7afa42a8840cf0e262d5892346ecf379
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 5 13:27:04 2008 +0100

is the first bad commit.

Comment 2 Dhaval Giani 2008-02-03 05:35:21 UTC

I believe this was fixed by H Peter Anvin in a follow up patch.

Comment 3 Natalie Protasevich 2008-02-03 11:16:57 UTC

I think found it : commit cf8fa920cb4271f17e0265c863d64bea1b31941a
(linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git)
Thanks.