From: "Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 01/11] ci: prevent grub unpacking initramfs
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:36:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z-5y1pCNlEVm5rsY@mail-itl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a64136e8-c74e-4f47-b52f-cd5b25c57b2e@suse.com>
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 01:29:16PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 03.04.2025 13:04, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > It fails on larger initramfs (~250MB one) and sometimes even smaller
> > depending on memory size/memory map, let Linux do it.
>
> Iirc grub only unpacks gzip-ed modules, so wouldn't a yet better approach
> be to use a better compressing algorithm, which simply as a side effect
> would keep grub from decompressing it, while at the same time moving
> farther away from any critical boundaries?
That should also make the test faster (if it's a significant
difference). OTOH likely we wouldn't have found the issue with
map_pages_to_xen().
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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-03 11:04 [PATCH v1 00/11] Several CI cleanups and improvements, plus yet another new runner Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 01/11] ci: prevent grub unpacking initramfs Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-03 11:29 ` Jan Beulich
2025-04-03 11:36 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki [this message]
2025-04-03 11:39 ` Andrew Cooper
2025-04-03 12:03 ` Jan Beulich
2025-04-05 0:28 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-04 0:16 ` Stefano Stabellini
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 02/11] ci: increase timeout for hw tests Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-03 11:32 ` Jan Beulich
2025-04-03 12:25 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-04 0:21 ` Stefano Stabellini
2025-04-04 0:35 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 03/11] ci: enable XHCI console in Xen debug build on Alpine Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-04 0:22 ` Stefano Stabellini
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 04/11] ci: include domU kernel messages in the console output log Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-04 0:23 ` Stefano Stabellini
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 05/11] ci: increase verbosity of starting a domain Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-04 0:33 ` Stefano Stabellini
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 06/11] ci: consistently use DOCKER_CMD in makefiles Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-04 0:35 ` Stefano Stabellini
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 07/11] ci: wait for the network interface in PCI passthrough tests Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-04 0:36 ` Stefano Stabellini
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 09/11] ci: adjust resolving network interface into PCI device Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-04 0:45 ` Stefano Stabellini
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 10/11] ci: add AMD Zen 4 HW runner Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-04-04 0:46 ` Stefano Stabellini
2025-04-03 11:04 ` [PATCH v1 11/11] [DO NOT MERGE] container Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
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[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2504031737290.3529306@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop>
2025-04-04 11:13 ` [PATCH v1 08/11] ci: switch test kernel from 6.1.19 to 6.12.21 Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
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