We use a large initrd that maxes out our available RAM when loading kexec. The problem can be mitigated by using slurp_file_mmap(), which avoids creating a copy of the initrd. The initrd does not use free, realloc, etc, so it should be safe to use. Signed-off-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c b/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c index 2a7eea9..f9d452f 100644 --- a/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c +++ b/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len, command_line_len = COMMAND_LINE_SIZE; } if (ramdisk) - ramdisk_buf = slurp_file(ramdisk, &initrd_size); + ramdisk_buf = slurp_file_mmap(ramdisk, &initrd_size); if (dtb_file) dtb_buf = slurp_file(dtb_file, &dtb_length); -- 2.23.0 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
