Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot loader decompressor

[Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>]

Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:30:15PM -0700, Mike Travis wrote:
>>   * Increase stack size for the kernel bootloader decompressor.  This is
>>     needed to boot a kernel with NR_CPUS = 4096.  I tested with 8k stack
>>     size but that wasn't sufficient.
>>
>> Based on:
>> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>>     +   x86/latest          .../x86/linux-2.6-x86.git
>>     +   sched-devel/latest  .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> --- linux-2.6.25-rc5.orig/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
>> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc5/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
>> @@ -314,5 +314,5 @@ gdt_end:
>>  /* Stack for uncompression */
>>  	.balign 4
>>  user_stack:
>> -	.fill 4096,4,0
>> +	.fill 16384,4,0
> --------------^^^ * ^
> 
> Changed from 16K to 64K. I wonder what is using so much space on
> this stack?
> 
>>  user_stack_end:
>>
>> -- 

Hi,

That is a good question.  It's pretty difficult to debug at that early
stage (any ideas are certainly welcome!).  It's mostly hit and miss (and
handy access to the reset button ;-)  I could do some further research
but since it's "throwaway" memory (at least I think it is), then I didn't
think it important to pursue.

And thanks for the correction, I thought I was bumping a byte count, not
a word count.

Thanks,
Mike