From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxAr2-0007zs-Jt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:45:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxAqy-0008DV-MV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:45:44 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:50704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxAqy-0008DG-Eg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:45:40 -0400 Received: from [192.168.178.27] ([109.192.248.236]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lm2lZ-1cWVjk41yL-00ZhHq for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:45:38 +0200 From: Dennis Luehring Message-ID: <0f042e9b-f6a3-27c1-4ca0-94e13f8102d8@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:45:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel qemu: 2.7.x (git head) platform: Alpha (Clipper) kernel: 4.7.0 gcc: 6.1 i don't know if its an qemu oder linux kernel problem i've got an ~360MB big_initrd.cpio and it sometimes happen(seems so) that there are files missing after the kernel loaded the initrd this does not happen with the same programs/initrd compiled for the sparc64 platform using qemu i've got a small C/C++-based init that prints some infos about the system and prints the content of the /tools/bin folder and there a some files missing that are definitely in the cpio file im starting qemu with alpha-softmmu/qemu-system-alpha -m 1GB -nographic -monitor telnet::4440,server,nowait -serial telnet::3000,server -kernel clfskernel -append 'console=ttyS0' -initrd big_initrd.cpio i've found a problem description on stackoverflow going in the same direction but im not using an in-kernel-ramfs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31524636/files-disappearing-from-initramfs i've uploaded my complete test here: http://www.filedropper.com/testalpha-linux-470gcc-610 (~66MB) containing files: big_initrd.cpio -> the big cpio which misses files after load clfskernel -> linux 4.7.0 (default settings) config -> used config init.cpp -> my init initrd.cpio -> only kernel+init cpio kernel.out.txt -> output of the kernel and init start_big.sh -> my starting script for qemu loading big_initrd.cpio start_small.sh -> my starting script for qemu loading initrd.cpio System.map -> kernel map file tools_dir_after_load.txt -> files in /tools/bin (copy&paste+sort from kernel.out.txt printdir /tools/bin) tools_dir_in_cpio.txt -> files in the cpio:/tools/bin