Re: [PATCH]Uncompressing Linux... Out of memory: fixed by increased HEAP_SIZE

From: karsten wiese
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 14:48:11 EST


--- Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> schrieb:
>
> > booting newest 2.6.9 experimental kernels, I frequently
> encountered
> > "Uncompressing Linux... Out of memory --System halted"
> > In some mail archive I found the (obvious ;-) solution:
> Increase HEAP_SIZE.
> >
> > Here in line 122 of arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c
> this
> > #define HEAP_SIZE 0x4000
> > instead of
> > #define HEAP_SIZE 0x3000
> > made 2.6.9-mm1-RT-U10.3 boot again.
>
> ah! Makes sense. Did you have LATENCY_TRACE enabled? That
> compiles the
> kernel with -pg which creates a fatter stackframe.
>
Only the malloc() called by gunzip() called by
decompress_kernel() is influenced by this HEAP_SIZE.
gunzip()'s internal work data is stored in that heap.
This only is in effect before the kernel "really" boots,
no?
LATENCY_TRACE is indeed off, ...but can gunzip()'s heap
needs be easier answered by a fatter stackframe (at
decompression time!)?

Thanks,
Karsten






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