x86/boot: Double BOOT_HEAP_SIZE to 64KB
authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Mon, 4 Jan 2016 18:17:09 +0000 (10:17 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:30:50 +0000 (12:30 +0100)
commit8c31902cffc4d716450be549c66a67a8a3dd479c
tree19c7c613ef5fa52f01fd0fbd65bb575579c10733
parent71b3c126e61177eb693423f2e18a1914205b165e
x86/boot: Double BOOT_HEAP_SIZE to 64KB

When decompressing kernel image during x86 bootup, malloc memory
for ELF program headers may run out of heap space, which leads
to system halt.  This patch doubles BOOT_HEAP_SIZE to 64KB.

Tested with 32-bit kernel which failed to boot without this patch.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h