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SubjectRe: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd
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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