Re: [BUG] kernel 2.6.33-rc4 OOPS's with large initramfs

[Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsd.net>]

    

>>> 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?

coreutils 8.4 and 7.5 and bash all give me the same result for the
commandline being run. This was just one of the things I tried and it
didn't fix the problem.

Here is what is run from the buildlog...
  (cat arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin | lzma -9 && printf
\\150\\111\\241\\007) > arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lzma || (rm
-f arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lzma ; false)

I tested printf out...
# printf \\150\\111\\241\\007 | xxd
0000000: 6849 a107                                hI..

coreutils 7.5
# /usr/bin/printf \\150\\111\\241\\007 | xxd
0000000: 6849 a107                                hI..

coreutils 8.4
# /usr/bin/printf \\150\\111\\241\\007 | xxd
0000000: 6849 a107                                hI..


That confirms it? its not the b0rked printf issue afaics :)

-N