Messages in this thread |  | | From | Sitsofe Wheeler <> | Date | Sat, 29 Oct 2016 08:33:16 +0100 | Subject | Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd |
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On 27 September 2016 at 22:21, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 September 2016 at 19:36, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: >> On September 27, 2016 3:20:06 AM PDT, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com> wrote: >>>(See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2534175 for >>>the history of this thread ) >>> >>>On 26 September 2016 at 20:00, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> >>>wrote: >>>> >>>> but the warning in free_init_pages() is about alignment, not size... >>>> Maybe the concatenation is bad? >>> >>>What would l have to pull apart to be able to tell?
This turned out to be down to a bug in iPXE initrd alignment which is fixed in https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/aa11f5deda29f91f5b8592965ed00f4a65002eff and impacted any initrd.
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