From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752316Ab0CTUQJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:16:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41714 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751946Ab0CTUQH (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:16:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4BA52D01.1070506@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:16:01 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nigel Kukard CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel 2.6.33-rc4 OOPS's with large initramfs References: <4B519F14.7020104@lbsd.net> <4B5CD711.7050204@zytor.com> <4BA51022.4010309@lbsd.net> <4BA51A48.6010509@zytor.com> <4BA52B6F.2060402@lbsd.net> In-Reply-To: <4BA52B6F.2060402@lbsd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/20/2010 01:09 PM, Nigel Kukard wrote: >>> >> How much RAM are you giving your VM? The default for Qemu is 128 MB, >> and if you have a 110 MB initramfs it's hardly surprising that you get >> an out of memory error. > > The kernel now boots where it booted for my 64bit box. > > The main problem though is the instant reboots for bzip2 and lzma > compressed initramfs images. The change for printf to /usr/bin/printf > both render the sane end result when run with the same commandline being > run in the makefile, so this isn't the issue. > Oh, you have *that* problem. What printf is being used? -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.