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From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] arm: fix kernel image size
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 03:38:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160621103810.GI22406@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160621094737.GA5783@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> [160621 02:50]:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:43:21AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > * Russell King <rmk@armlinux.org.uk> [160617 12:52]:
> > > If we want to assume that the compressed image will expand by a maximum
> > > of 4x, we actually need to reserve 5x the space, since we need to keep
> > > a copy of the compessed image around while decompressing.
> > 
> > Looks like 5x is not enough with omap2plus_defconfig at least..
> > This one needs to be set to 6x for that. Maybe we should just make
> > it go all the way to 11 :)
> 
> That's not really what this commit is about - it's about making the
> code consistent with the comments in the file.  I could have instead
> changed the comment saying "4x" to "3x" instead.
> 
> There isn't really an answer which will always work for this problem,
> as I've already detailed in a previous thread discussing the issue.
> Adding a zImage header don't fix the problem.

Well how about we change both comments and code to use a value
that works?

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-21 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-17 19:44 [PATCH 0/2] Simple fix to the ARM kexec tools implementation Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-06-17 19:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm: take account of TEXT_OFFSET for subsequent images Russell King
2016-06-17 19:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm: fix kernel image size Russell King
2016-06-21  7:43   ` Tony Lindgren
2016-06-21  9:47     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-06-21 10:38       ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2016-06-21 10:57         ` Tony Lindgren
2016-06-21 15:44           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-06-21 16:55             ` Tony Lindgren
2016-06-21 21:51               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-06-22  7:36                 ` Tony Lindgren
2016-06-22  8:29                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-06-22  8:51                     ` Tony Lindgren
2016-06-21 11:02   ` Mason
2016-06-21  6:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] Simple fix to the ARM kexec tools implementation Pratyush Anand
2016-06-21  8:20   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-06-23  0:41     ` Simon Horman

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