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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot loader decompressor -- payload_length
Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> FWIIW, i've been booting allyesconfig bzImages for a long time (with
>> only minimal amount of drivers disabled - mostly old ISA ones that
>> assume the presence of the real hardware), and they boot and work fine
>> on both 32-bit and 64-bit typical whitebox PCs. That means huge bzImages
>> that decompresses into a ~41 MB kernel image. I'd expect that to be a
>> rather severe test of the decompressor.
>
> payload_offset and payload_length in arch/x86/boot/head.S
> seems to be used by bootloader to seat the bzImage. or just use size
> of bzImage
>

payload_offset/payload_length are used by loaders for nonstandard
platform loaders which don't actually load a bzImage.

> long term, should add one field after payload_length like
> payload_unzip_length to make bootloader or kexec what buffer size
> needed.

You can look at the payload headers for that.

-hpa


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