linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.27] overlapping early reservations [was: early exception

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Message-ID: <20080906172523.GL4856@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:25:23 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.27] overlapping early reservations [was: early exception
	- lockdep related?]


* Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com> wrote:

> > or perhaps something made your v2.6.27 bzImage larger so that the 
> > overlap happens - while it didnt before.
> 
> The compressed image (bzImage) is roughly the same size as older
> kernels (2MB), the uncompressed vmlinux is slightly bigger, but not
> much (~100k)

hm, that doesnt seem to match the ranges that got printed:

| Kernel is loaded at the standard 2MB physical, and goes up to 13.6MB 
| physical. That's a tad large at 11.6 MB but still valid.

so how come a ~2MB vmlinux takes 11.6 MB? Is the bss that large for some 
reason perhaps?

	Ingo
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