linux-kernel - Re: Warning from free_init

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:20:06 +0100
From:   Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>,
        Jeremy Katz <katzj@...hat.com>,
        "Brian C. Lane" <bcl@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

(See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2534175 for
the history of this thread )

On 26 September 2016 at 20:00, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> but the warning in free_init_pages() is about alignment, not size...
> Maybe the concatenation is bad?

What would l have to pull apart to be able to tell?

Having said that I've just noticed that newer versions of the script
concatenate an ISO to the initrd (rather than another cpio) -
https://github.com/rhinstaller/livecd-tools/commit/8067be50907da9461e442c11a664c89e066ccac6#diff-88c69e43bb69726c532af3a136cc50e8
. Unfortunately after rebuilding the initrd with the
livecd-iso-to-pxeboot version from Fedora 24 the warning persists.
CC'ing a few of the tool's authors on this email.

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