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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Jan 24 2010 - 18:26:30 EST


On 01/16/2010 03:12 AM, Nigel Kukard wrote:
>
> Generating a initramfs with the following, one of about 30Mb, one of 77Mb.
> find . | cpio -o -H newc > ../initramfs.cpio
>
> Only difference is adding of more files to the 77Mb image.
>
> It makes no difference if its compiled into kernel or used as initrd.
> Compression types makes no difference either.
>
> Tested on 2.6.32.3->2.6.33-rc4 , all fail with the below.
>
> The 30Mb initramfs loads fine, the 77Mb image throws the following...
>

What are the exact compressed and uncompressed files (or is that an
uncompressed initramfs)?

Also, you're describing how to reproduce this with Qemu, but have you
tried with other bootloaders? Which version of Qemu (some versions of
the Qemu bootloaders had a lot of problems.)

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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