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  1. Mar 09, 2011
  2. Feb 26, 2011
    • Nicolas Pitre's avatar
      ARM: 6746/1: remove the 4x expansion presumption while decompressing the kernel · d239b1dc
      Nicolas Pitre authored
      
      
      We currently presume a 4x expansion to guess the decompressed kernel size
      in order to determine if the decompressed kernel is in conflict with
      the location where zImage is loaded.  This guess may cause many issues
      by overestimating the final kernel image size:
      
      - This may force a needless relocation if the location of zImage was
        fine, wasting some precious microseconds of boot time.
      
      - The relocation may be located way too far, possibly overwriting the
        initrd image in RAM.
      
      - If the kernel image includes a large already-compressed initramfs image
        then the problem is even more exacerbated.
      
      And if by some strange means the 4x guess is too low then we may overwrite
      ourselves with the decompressed image.
      
      So let's use the exact decompressed kernel image size instead.  For that
      we need to rely on the stat command, but this is hardly a new build
      dependency as the kernel already depends on many external commands
      to be built provided by the coreutils package where stat is found.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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