Bug 27203
| Summary: | PXE initrd download to the wrong memory space | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michael Johnson <michael_d_johnson> |
| Component: | pxe | Assignee: | Elliot Lee <sopwith> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-08-08 05:08:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Opps, wrong patch file. The patch should read:
*** download.c Thu Sep 23 17:58:21 1999
--- /tmp/downloadpatch/download.c Mon Feb 12 13:35:52 2001
*************** t_IP sip;
*** 95,100 ****
--- 95,102 ----
t_PXE_MTFTP_TMOUT *mtftp_tmout;
t_PXE_MTFTP_DELAY *mtftp_delay;
+ unsigned long mem_size = 0;
+
if (bootfile = find_dhcp_tag(&reply, 67, 0)) {
strncpy(dl_fname, bootfile->buf, bootfile->len);
dl_fname[bootfile->len] = 0;
*************** t_IP sip;
*** 116,122 ****
initrd_size = 4 * 1024L * 1024L;
! initrd_addr = (get_memsize() - 1024L) * 1024L - initrd_size;
cll();
--- 118,129 ----
initrd_size = 4 * 1024L * 1024L;
! mem_size = (get_memsize() - 1024L) * 1024L;
! if (mem_size > 0x038000000) {
! initrd_addr = 0x038000000 - initrd_size;
! } else {
! initrd_addr = mem_size - initrd_size;
! }
cll();
bputs("Downloading initrd image...\n");
bputs("Downloading initrd image...\n");
Let's try that again, it pasted wrong...
*** download.c Thu Sep 23 17:58:21 1999
--- /tmp/downloadpatch/download.c Mon Feb 12 13:35:52 2001
*************** t_IP sip;
*** 95,100 ****
--- 95,102 ----
t_PXE_MTFTP_TMOUT *mtftp_tmout;
t_PXE_MTFTP_DELAY *mtftp_delay;
+ unsigned long mem_size = 0;
+
if (bootfile = find_dhcp_tag(&reply, 67, 0)) {
strncpy(dl_fname, bootfile->buf, bootfile->len);
dl_fname[bootfile->len] = 0;
*************** t_IP sip;
*** 116,122 ****
initrd_size = 4 * 1024L * 1024L;
! initrd_addr = (get_memsize() - 1024L) * 1024L - initrd_size;
cll();
bputs("Downloading initrd image...\n");
--- 118,129 ----
initrd_size = 4 * 1024L * 1024L;
! mem_size = (get_memsize() - 1024L) * 1024L;
! if (mem_size > 0x038000000) {
! initrd_addr = 0x038000000 - initrd_size;
! } else {
! initrd_addr = mem_size - initrd_size;
! }
cll();
bputs("Downloading initrd image...\n");
Whee a patch, must apply. Apologies for the unresponsiveness of the previous pxe maintainer... *** Bug 18277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686) On a server with > 2Gig RAM I am getting the following messages: initrd already destroyed by paging_init! initrd overwritten (0x4faf0000 < 0xc19bdc98) - disabling it. RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Invalid session number or type of track Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:01 On inspection it appears that pxe-linux/nbp.linux/download.c is loading the initrd image into a place the kernel doesn't expect it. PXELINUX(part of the syslinux package) implies that there is an upper bound on the address that initrd can be loaded into, specifically 0x038000000. download.c does not take this into account. I do not know enough about the kernel's memory model to know if this is the "right thing to do". Hopefully someone can use this information to verify that this is the problem. If it is the problem, the following patch may work. I have successfully tried it on the failing server. *** download.c Thu Sep 23 17:58:21 1999 --- /tmp/downloadpatch/download.c Mon Feb 12 12:07:50 2001 *************** t_IP sip; *** 95,100 **** --- 95,102 ---- t_PXE_MTFTP_TMOUT *mtftp_tmout; t_PXE_MTFTP_DELAY *mtftp_delay; + unsigned long mem_size = 0; + if (bootfile = find_dhcp_tag(&reply, 67, 0)) { strncpy(dl_fname, bootfile->buf, bootfile->len); dl_fname[bootfile->len] = 0; *************** t_IP sip; *** 116,122 **** initrd_size = 4 * 1024L * 1024L; ! initrd_addr = (get_memsize() - 1024L) * 1024L - initrd_size; cll(); bputs("Downloading initrd image...\n"); --- 118,129 ---- initrd_size = 4 * 1024L * 1024L; ! mem_size = get_memsize(); ! if (mem_size > 0x038000000) { ! initrd_addr = 0x038000000 - initrd_size; ! } else { ! initrd_addr = (mem_size - 1024L) * 1024L - initrd_size; ! } cll(); bputs("Downloading initrd image...\n"); Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use PXE to boot a server with > 2Gig RAM. 2. 3. Actual Results: ... mapped APIC to ffffe000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (fec00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec01000) initrd already destroyed by paging_init! Detected 700084 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1395.92 BogoMIPS initrd overwritten (0x4faf0000 < 0xc19bdc98) - disabling it. ... RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Invalid session number or type of track Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:01 Expected Results: The boot should have completed. I have tried booting kernels with BIGMEM turned on and off, as well as 2 gig support. All showed the same result.