linux-kernel - Re: increasing memory alloted for 'init' during kernel boot.

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Message-ID: <20100831125830.GA14848@merkur.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:58:30 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Prabhu Chawandi <prabhu.chavandi@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, listar@...linux.org
Subject: Re: increasing memory alloted for 'init' during kernel boot.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 08/31/2010 10:43 AM, Prabhu Chawandi wrote:
> > Hi ,
> > 
> > Thanks for the info...
> > 
> > Problem I am facing is, I have two bootloaders, when I boot from one
> > loader booting happens properly.
> > 
> > but when I try to load from other loader, kernel does not boot, it
> > crashes. When i saw the boot logs, I saw that I memory allocated to
> > 'init' section in case of crash is short by almost 5MB to the normal
> > boot log.
> > 
> > I am using mips processor.
> > 
> > Any idea, why this might be happening ?
> 
> The bad loader probably loads the image wrong (incorrect data or not
> whole image).

Shmulik just posted a patch that may be related.
See: "MIPS: Calculate VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS based on the length of vmlinux.bin"

Looks like a bug I have introduced btw :-(

	Sam
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