Re: [2.6.27] overlapping early reservations [was: early exception- lockdep related?]

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Sep 06 2008 - 13:25:53 EST



* Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > or perhaps something made your v2.6.27 bzImage larger so that the
> > overlap happens - while it didnt before.
>
> The compressed image (bzImage) is roughly the same size as older
> kernels (2MB), the uncompressed vmlinux is slightly bigger, but not
> much (~100k)

hm, that doesnt seem to match the ranges that got printed:

| Kernel is loaded at the standard 2MB physical, and goes up to 13.6MB
| physical. That's a tad large at 11.6 MB but still valid.

so how come a ~2MB vmlinux takes 11.6 MB? Is the bss that large for some
reason perhaps?

Ingo
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