linux-kernel - Re: [linux-next-20160302] Can't unpack initramfs.

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Message-ID: <20160305112557.GC23473@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:25:57 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:	kuleshovmail@...il.com, bp@...e.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	bhe@...hat.com, dyoung@...hat.com, jroedel@...e.de,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, msalter@...hat.com,
	peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-next-20160302] Can't unpack initramfs.


* Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp> wrote:

> I'm hitting a problem that initramfs is corrupted when booting from GRUB2 on VMware Player 6.0.6.
> This problem does not occur when booting from qemu-kvm or from PXE on VMware Player 6.0.6.

> Bisection reached to "x86/setup: Calculate ramdisk parameters only once".

that commit is crap, as it changed the size calculation:

-       u64 ramdisk_size  = get_ramdisk_size();

-                     ramdisk_size);
+                     ramdisk->size);

+       struct ramdisk ramdisk = {
+              .start_addr      = get_ramdisk_image(),
+              .size            = PAGE_ALIGN(get_ramdisk_size()),
+              .reserve_ramdisk = true
+       };

I've zapped it.

Thanks,

	Ingo