From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Brian C. Lane" <bcl@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:50:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160927125029.GM26315@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALjAwxhz7ng0MbuBArzzRWdGqSSaSBnqhQh9nX0TRvdS0aRFCg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:20:06AM +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> (See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2534175 for
> the history of this thread )
>
> On 26 September 2016 at 20:00, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > but the warning in free_init_pages() is about alignment, not size...
> > Maybe the concatenation is bad?
>
> What would l have to pull apart to be able to tell?
>
> Having said that I've just noticed that newer versions of the script
> concatenate an ISO to the initrd (rather than another cpio) -
> https://github.com/rhinstaller/livecd-tools/commit/8067be50907da9461e442c11a664c89e066ccac6#diff-88c69e43bb69726c532af3a136cc50e8
> . Unfortunately after rebuilding the initrd with the
> livecd-iso-to-pxeboot version from Fedora 24 the warning persists.
> CC'ing a few of the tool's authors on this email.
I would just comment that I wrote livecd-iso-to-pxeboot for
a specific purpose -- virt-p2v -- where the size of the ISO
rarely exceeded around 100-200 MB, which is large for an initramfs,
but about an order of magnitude smaller than what you are trying.
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-27 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-24 15:32 Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd Sitsofe Wheeler
2016-09-26 2:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-09-26 6:22 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2016-09-26 6:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-09-26 6:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-09-26 17:26 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2016-09-26 19:00 ` Randy Dunlap
2016-09-27 10:20 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2016-09-27 12:50 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2016-09-27 18:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-09-27 21:21 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2016-10-29 7:33 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
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