Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-10-29 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
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 Sep

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-27 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
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 wa

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-27 Thread H. Peter Anvin
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... >> Mayb

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
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 wrote: > > > > but the warning in free_init_pages() is about alignment, not size...

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-27 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
(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 abl

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-26 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 09/26/16 10:26, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > On 26 September 2016 at 07:47, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On September 25, 2016 11:22:04 PM PDT, Sitsofe Wheeler >> wrote: >>> On 26 September 2016 at 03:14, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > While trying t

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-26 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On 26 September 2016 at 07:47, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On September 25, 2016 11:22:04 PM PDT, Sitsofe Wheeler > wrote: >>On 26 September 2016 at 03:14, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: While trying to PXE boot a Fedora LiveISO on VMware ESXi the kern

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On September 25, 2016 11:22:04 PM PDT, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >On 26 September 2016 at 03:14, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >>> >>> While trying to PXE boot a Fedora LiveISO on VMware ESXi the kernel >>> throws the following warning: >>> >> [...] >>> >>> The

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On September 25, 2016 11:22:04 PM PDT, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >On 26 September 2016 at 03:14, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >>> >>> While trying to PXE boot a Fedora LiveISO on VMware ESXi the kernel >>> throws the following warning: >>> >> [...] >>> >>> The

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-25 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On 26 September 2016 at 03:14, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >> >> While trying to PXE boot a Fedora LiveISO on VMware ESXi the kernel >> throws the following warning: >> > [...] >> >> The initrd is big because it holds all the files in the ISO (see >> https://f

Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Hi, > > While trying to PXE boot a Fedora LiveISO on VMware ESXi the kernel > throws the following warning: > [...] > > The initrd is big because it holds all the files in the ISO (see > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd for how i

Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

2016-09-24 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hi, While trying to PXE boot a Fedora LiveISO on VMware ESXi the kernel throws the following warning: [0.955216] Unpacking initramfs... [5.391977] [ cut here ] [5.391986] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/init.c:671 free_init_pages+0x94/0xa0 [5.391988]