Uncompressing broken with commit e7db7b4270

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 04:04:15PM +0100, Albin Tonnerre wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:46 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote :
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:03:49PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > Hi,
> 
> > > For whatever reason, with commit e7db7b4270 (arm: add support for
> > > LZO-compressed kernels) if the kernel Image goes beyond a certain size
> > > it fails to uncompress. Reverting this commit solves the problem.
> > > Removing some random kernel features also solves the uncompressing as
> > > the kernel image gets smaller.
> > With the same commit zImage stopped printing dots during decompression.
> 
> > Something that isn't mentioned in the commit log of e7db7b4270 is that
> > the decompressing routine for gzip is changed.
> 
> > Before lib/inflate.c was included by arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c,
> > since e7db7b4270 it's lib/decompress_inflate.c.
> 
> Indeed, that's why it stopped printing dots.
I'd like to have them back.

> > Maybe the new implementation needs more stack space?  If so it might
> > help to increase the stack size.  (This is defined in the last line of
> > arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S.  If you change the value be sure to
> > adapt the value just before the LC1 label in the same file, too.)
> 
> If so, the decompressor would exit with an error message stating that it can't
> allocate enough memory, so I doubt this is the cause.
I havn't investigated but I wonder how a stack overflow would be
detected.
 
Best regards
Uwe

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