From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmlinux.lds.h: allow people to set a smaller rootfs alignment
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:50:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C11CEAA.5020703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin_MR82jafZkkzfv33dO6DqyFnHUiU4g6luXB_0@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/09/2010 12:42 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> i have no problem changing the default to 4 since it works fine on
> Blackfin systems. your analysis of the source alignment also seems
> reasonable ... i assume that the 8 byte fields in the source cpio
> arent referenced directly, otherwise it'd cause problems on 64bit
> systems that require 64bit values to be naturally aligned.
>
> beyond that, i dont see why any larger alignment values would be
> required since this source archive isnt executed directly. it gets
> expanded into a ramfs and then freed with the rest of the init stuff.
>
We have talked for a long time about incrementally freeing the initramfs
as it is decoded, which might help systems which are using most of their
memory for an initramfs image...
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-11 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-05 18:14 [PATCH 1/2] vmlinux.lds.h: allow people to set a smaller rootfs alignment Mike Frysinger
2010-06-05 18:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] Blackfin: use " Mike Frysinger
2010-06-07 23:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] vmlinux.lds.h: allow people to set a " Tim Abbott
2010-06-09 7:20 ` Milton Miller
2010-06-09 7:42 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-06-09 7:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-06-11 5:50 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-06-11 7:30 ` Milton Miller
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