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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:34:08 +0000 (10:34 +0000)
commitddb405752278075861b5aafa429e84fdbe80868e
treead0371eac44a190ba314d901ea6e4eb2de28c25d
parent72e67165876432b2803c02ba8a8f0168f18ab3c7
x86/boot: Double BOOT_HEAP_SIZE to 64KB

commit 8c31902cffc4d716450be549c66a67a8a3dd479c upstream.

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
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h