linux-kernel - Re: [Fastboot] [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86

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Date:	Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:07:01 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc:	fastboot@...l.org, Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Jan Kratochvil <lace@...kratochvil.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages

Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com> writes:

>> The length error comes from lib/inflate.c 
>> 
>> I think it would be interesting to look at orig_len and bytes_out.
>> 
>> My hunch is that I have tripped over a tool chain bug or a weird
>> alignment issue.
>
> I thought so too, but I took vmlinuz images from people (Vivek) who had it
> boot on their systems but those images still failed on my two machines.  
>
>> 
>> The error is the uncompressed length does not math the stored length
>> of the data before from before we compressed it.  Now what is
>> fascinating is that our crc's match (as that check is performed first).
>> 
>> Something is very slightly off and I don't see what it is.
>
> I printed out orig_len -> 5910532 (which matches vmlinux.bin)
>              bytes_out -> 5910531
>
>> 
>> After looking at the state variables I would probably start looking
>> at the uncompressed data to see if it really was decompressing
>> properly.  If nothing else that is the kind of process that would tend
>> to spark a clue.
>
> I am not familiar with the code, so very few sparks are flying.  I'll
> still dig through though.  Thanks for the tips.

I guess the interesting thing to do would be to 
- Recompute the crc to see if we still match.
- Possibly instrument of flush_window.

I have a strange feeling that the uncompressed data is getting corrupted
after we have flushed the window.

Eric


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