linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] initramfs: Support initrd that is bigger then 2G.

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQXRWR8vWFZEsuoGMbe1mZL72QWyjWfNt13o0+Q9bgHJfg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:02:52 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	"Daniel M. Weeks" <dan@...weeks.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] initramfs: Support initrd that is bigger then 2G.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:29 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 06/19/2014 07:12 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> Also need to use that in write_buffer path for cpio that have file is
>> more than file.
>
> That sentence doesn't make sense.

I mean this path:
   unpack_to_rootfs  ===> write_buffer ===> actions[].../do_copy
and image is uncompressed cpio, and there is one big file (>2G) in that cpio.


>
>
> I would call this function xwrite(), which is usually called in userspace.

Good, will change that.

>
> It would be nice in order to support very large initrd/initramfs, to
> free the memory as it becomes available instead of requiring two copies
> of the data in memory at the same time.

for initramfs, it is from ramdisk_image/ramdisk_size to tmpfs directly.
and ramdisk_image/ramdisk_size get freed.

for initrd, it is transferred to /initrd.image in tmpfs at first, and
ramdisk_image/ramdisk_size
get freed,  at last /initrd.image is decompressed/copied to /dev/ram0
and get removed
from tempfs.

So what do you mean "free the memory"?

Thanks

Yinghai
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