Re: In place kexec

H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-30T21:11:43Z

On 07/30/2010 01:15 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> - 'on with page tables cleared', in which case you are safe but some
> devices might get upset when their DMA is aborted, so their driver
> needs not to be a pile of shit, and needs to recover from that.
>

I presume this is the state he's referring to.

Now, if this means there are page tables in memory those tables are
still subject to being overwritten.

-hpa