Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:50:42 +0100 | From | "Richard W.M. Jones" <> | Subject | Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd |
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:20:06AM +0100, 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 <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? > > Having said that I've just noticed that newer versions of the script > concatenate an ISO to the initrd (rather than another cpio) - > https://github.com/rhinstaller/livecd-tools/commit/8067be50907da9461e442c11a664c89e066ccac6#diff-88c69e43bb69726c532af3a136cc50e8 > . Unfortunately after rebuilding the initrd with the > livecd-iso-to-pxeboot version from Fedora 24 the warning persists. > CC'ing a few of the tool's authors on this email.
I would just comment that I wrote livecd-iso-to-pxeboot for a specific purpose -- virt-p2v -- where the size of the ISO rarely exceeded around 100-200 MB, which is large for an initramfs, but about an order of magnitude smaller than what you are trying.
Rich.
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