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)
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

index 4fa687a..6b8d6e8 100644 (file)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE             0x400000
 #else /* !CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 */
 
-#define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x8000
+#define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x10000
 
 #endif /* !CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 */