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DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[suse.de:+]; MISSING_XM_UA(0.00)[]; DBL_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:rdns,imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:helo,suse.de:mid,suse.de:dkim] X-Rspamd-Server: rspamd1.dmz-prg2.suse.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Level: On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:28:53 +0000, Stephen Eta Zhou wrote: > > There's room for improvement WRT how out-of-memory failures are reported > > I am currently trying to find a good optimization solution for this. Since initramfs is decompressed in the early stage of the kernel, if the decompression fails, it will call panic to put the kernel into a panic state. Not always. The *built-in* initramfs unpack_to_rootfs() error path panics, but external initramfs unpack_to_rootfs() failure won't panic immediately... > There is a contradiction: at this time, the console and serial port have not been initialized yet, which will cause the error message to fail to be output, resulting in a suspended state, and no valid output can be seen. Are your console/serial drivers loaded as external modules? That sounds like a configuration problem.