From c8e3c8b21bd7a317d071ab8cf478880e7a4f92d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:57:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] ppc64: Fix zImage boot The zImage wrapper has a bug where it doesn't claim() the memory for the kernel properly, it forgets to take into account the offset between the ELF header and the kernel itself. This results on some machines, like G5s, into a kernel that crashes at boot when clearing the BSS. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/ppc64/boot/main.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/ppc64/boot/main.c b/arch/ppc64/boot/main.c index c1dc876bccab..e0dde24a72ce 100644 --- a/arch/ppc64/boot/main.c +++ b/arch/ppc64/boot/main.c @@ -203,8 +203,15 @@ void start(unsigned long a1, unsigned long a2, void *promptr, void *sp) if (elf64ph->p_type == PT_LOAD && elf64ph->p_offset != 0) break; } - vmlinux.size = (unsigned long)elf64ph->p_filesz; - vmlinux.memsize = (unsigned long)elf64ph->p_memsz; + vmlinux.size = (unsigned long)elf64ph->p_filesz + + (unsigned long)elf64ph->p_offset; + /* We need to claim the memsize plus the file offset since gzip + * will expand the header (file offset), then the kernel, then + * possible rubbish we don't care about. But the kernel bss must + * be claimed (it will be zero'd by the kernel itself) + */ + vmlinux.memsize = (unsigned long)elf64ph->p_memsz + + (unsigned long)elf64ph->p_offset; printf("Allocating 0x%lx bytes for kernel ...\n\r", vmlinux.memsize); vmlinux.addr = try_claim(vmlinux.memsize); if (vmlinux.addr == 0) {