Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:46:26 +0200 | From | Alexander van Heukelum <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot loader decompressor |
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:30:15PM -0700, Mike Travis wrote: > * Increase stack size for the kernel bootloader decompressor. This is > needed to boot a kernel with NR_CPUS = 4096. I tested with 8k stack > size but that wasn't sufficient. > > Based on: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git > + x86/latest .../x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > + sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git > > Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> > --- > arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > --- linux-2.6.25-rc5.orig/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S > +++ linux-2.6.25-rc5/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S > @@ -314,5 +314,5 @@ gdt_end: > /* Stack for uncompression */ > .balign 4 > user_stack: > - .fill 4096,4,0 > + .fill 16384,4,0 --------------^^^ * ^
Changed from 16K to 64K. I wonder what is using so much space on this stack?
> user_stack_end: > > --
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