Attachment 585028 Details for Bug 820264 – This patch makes the traceback slightly more reasonable.

[patch] This patch makes the traceback slightly more reasonable.

0001-Don-t-continue-booting-if-we-can-t-load-the-specifie.patch (text/plain), 1.23 KB, created by Peter Jones on 2012-05-16 17:48:22 UTC

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Created: 2012-05-16 17:48:22 UTC

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>From 1aa268489bc7fd06477242701baf98b9ebecdf1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
>Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:21:19 -0400
>Subject: [PATCH] Don't continue booting if we can't load the specified
> initrd.
>
>If we've determined we can't do what the user asked, trying to do
>something else isn't going to make the user's life better.
>
>Without this the screen scrolls a bit and then you get a panic
>anyway, and it's nice not to have so much scroll after the real
>problem in bug reports.
>---
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c |    7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>index 1a29015..37ef116 100644
>--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>@@ -393,10 +393,9 @@ static void __init reserve_initrd(void)
> 	initrd_start = 0;
> 
> 	if (ramdisk_size >= (end_of_lowmem>>1)) {
>-		memblock_free(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_end - ramdisk_image);
>-		printk(KERN_ERR "initrd too large to handle, "
>-		       "disabling initrd\n");
>-		return;
>+		panic("initrd too large to handle, "
>+		       "disabling initrd (%lld needed, %lld available)\n",
>+		       ramdisk_size, end_of_lowmem>>1);
> 	}
> 
> 	printk(KERN_INFO "RAMDISK: %08llx - %08llx\n", ramdisk_image,
>-- 
>1.7.10.1
>

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