Forum | Documentation | Website | Blog

Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
Commit d0537508 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: add CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START


For one kernel to report a crash another kernel has created we need
to have 2 kernels loaded simultaneously in memory.  To accomplish this
the two kernels need to built to run at different physical addresses.

This patch adds the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option to the x86_64 kernel
so we can do just that.  You need to know what you are doing and
the ramifications are before changing this value, and most users
won't care so I have made it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED

bzImage kernels will work and run at a different address when compiled
with this option but they will still load at 1MB.  If you need a kernel
loaded at a different address as well you need to boot a vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 8a919085
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment