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    initramfs: support initrd that is bigger than 2GiB · 38747439
    Yinghai Lu authored
    
    
    When initrd (compressed or not) is used, kernel report data corrupted with
    /dev/ram0.
    
    The root cause:
    During initramfs checking, if it is initrd, it will be transferred to
    /initrd.image with sys_write.
    sys_write only support 2G-4K write, so if the initrd ram is more than
    that, /initrd.image will not complete at all.
    
    Add local xwrite to loop calling sys_write to workaround the problem.
    
    Also need to use xwrite in write_buffer() to handle:
    image is uncompressed cpio and there is one big file (>2G) in it.
       unpack_to_rootfs ===> write_buffer ===> actions[]/do_copy
    
    At the same time, we don't need to worry about sys_read/sys_write in
    do_mounts_rd.c::crd_load.  As decompressor will have fill/flush and local
    buffer that is smaller than 2G.
    
    Test with uncompressed initrd, and compressed ones with gz, bz2, lzma,xz,
    lzop.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
    Cc: "Daniel M. Weeks" <dan@danweeks.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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