Hi Adam,
Thanks for the RAM_SIZE_MB tip, I now have 512 Mb properly detected/usable on my BB xM. The test scenario still fails as before though (if I keep the RAM/ramdisk settings I mentionned previously). I will increase the amount of RAM I allocate to each L4linux instance, to workaround the problem, but in case you find something interesting on the reason for this behavior I am of course still interested to know.
Regards, Julien
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de
wrote:
Hi Julien,
On Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 16:42:07 +0200, Julien Heyman wrote:
Here is what I notice now: it seems to be related to memory settings somehow. Even though my ramdisk is indeed smaller than half the ram size
I
assign to the linux instance loading it, the presence of other L4Re executables (that take their share of the global memory...) has an
impact,
as illustrated in the tests below:
Test 1:
- I am running two instances of L4Linux simultaneously. The first
instance
gets 16Mb RAM and has a ramdisk of ~3Mb, while the second instance gets
40Mb
RAM and has a ramdisk of 16Mb => in this case the boot fails in the
second
linux instance, with the symptoms I mentionned earlier, when loading the 16Mb ramdisk (full log attached)
Test 2:
- same setup, but I comment out the creation of the first linux instance
in
the boot script => in this case the 16Mb ramdisk is properly loaded in
the
"second" linux and boot is OK (full log attached)
Test 3:
- similar setup as test 1, running two linux instances, but this time
reducing the ramdisk in the second instance to 8Mb instead of 16Mb: boot
is
OK in this case too (full log attached)
I'll try to reproduce this. It didn't work in the first try but I'll try harder.
Do the logs and/or my test descriptions above allow to understand the
reason
for the failed case ? As a side question, I see at boot time that Fiasco uses a total of only
128
Mb of RAM, whereas the Beagleboard xM I am using has 512 Mb RAM. Is this amount predefined somewhere in Fiasco, or does it autodetect available
RAM
at boot time ? (and in this case why doesn't it see the full 512 Mb ?)
The reason is simple. The older Beagleboard (without 'xM') has 128MB, so this is the default setting. When building the image, add RAM_SIZE_MB=512 to the make command and it will use 512MB. Adding it to conf/Makeconf.boot will make it the default.
Adam
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