Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753005AbcJ2HdT (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2016 03:33:19 -0400 Received: from mail-ua0-f169.google.com ([209.85.217.169]:35383 "EHLO mail-ua0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751438AbcJ2HdS (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2016 03:33:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20160924153222.GA7405@sucs.org> <6DD13E16-A20B-4BFF-9405-FF6CFDEDB693@zytor.com> <0c7dca7c-3789-389e-1494-c1cbb5d18e1e@infradead.org> <50745871-A433-4F0E-B5D3-C9A2100E6F17@zytor.com> From: Sitsofe Wheeler Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 08:33:16 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Richard W.M. Jones" , Randy Dunlap Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 813 Lines: 20 On 27 September 2016 at 22:21, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > On 27 September 2016 at 19:36, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On September 27, 2016 3:20:06 AM PDT, Sitsofe Wheeler 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 >>>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. -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/