On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:55:30PM +0400, Konstantin Baydarov wrote:

Hi, I've faced problem:
I have two x86_64 kernels with HPET enabled:
kernel 1 - with PM enabled,
kernel 2 - with PM disabled.
When I execute kernel 2 from kernel 1 on pentiumd based PC, kernel 2 hangs
during boot:
root@192.168.40.10:~#
root@192.168.40.10:~# ./kexec.sh ./ko_bzImage_x86_64_nopm
+ kexec -l ././ko_bzImage_x86_64_nopm '--command-line=kdb=on kdb=early
apic=debug nmi_watchdog=0 console=ttyS0
,115200 ip=bootp root=/dev/nfs rw'
+ kexec -e
md: stopping all md devices.
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:00.0 disabled
Starting new kernel
Linux version 2.6.23-rc2 (root@pentiumdcge.dev.rtsoft.ru) (gcc version 4.2.0
(MontaVista 4.2.0-8.0.0.0703430 2
007-06-22)) #3 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 20 20:26:17 MSD 2007
Command line: kdb=on kdb=early apic=debug nmi_watchdog=0 console=ttyS0,115200
ip=bootp root=/dev/nfs rw
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000100 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f790000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001f790000 - 000000001f79e000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001f79e000 - 000000001f7e0000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001f7e0000 - 000000001f800000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
end_pfn_map = 1048576
DMI 2.3 present.
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             1 ->     4096
  DMA32        4096 ->  1048576
  Normal    1048576 ->  1048576
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
    0:        1 ->      159
    0:      256 ->   128912
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
MPTABLE: OEM ID: INTEL    MPTABLE: Product ID:  MPTABLE: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU)
Processor #1
I/O APIC #2 at 0xFEC00000.
Setting APIC routing to flat
Processors: 2
mapped APIC to ffffffffff5fb000 (        fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffffffff5fa000 (00000000fec00000)
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 1f800000:e0380000)
PERCPU: Allocating 31696 bytes of per cpu data
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order.  Total pages: 125250
Kernel command line: kdb=on kdb=early apic=debug nmi_watchdog=0
console=ttyS0,115200 ip=bootp root=/dev/nfs rw
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 16384 bytes)
time.c: Detected 3000.006 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Checking aperture...
Memory: 500048k/515648k available (4577k kernel code, 15136k reserved, 1755k
data, 280k init)
-------------------------------- kernel hangs here --------------------------

Root case:
When kernel 1 switches to Local APIC timer It disables HPET.
When kernel 1 executes kernel 2, HPET isn't reenabled early during boot, because
PM and ACPI is disabled and kernel 2 doesn't search for HPET in ACPI tables.
HPET is disabled, so kernel enables PIT timer, but it doesn't work on pentiumd
(don't know why).

Does your kernel 2 boot normally? I mean through BIOS and boot-loader?
This explanation seems to be suggesting that because PM and ACPI is disabled,
kernel 2 does not search for HPET. If this is the case, this kernel will
not boot even through normal boot-loader and will try to use PIT instead?

If so, it is not an kexec issue at all.

Thanks
Vivek