Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] x86, boot: Don't overlap VO with ZO data

Yinghai Lu
2015-03-10T15:42:40Z

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 08:17:01AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> Make it not confusing.
>>
>> ZO: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
>> VO: vmlinux
>>
>> setup + ZO ==> bzImage.
>>
>> compressed kernel is just compressed VO.
>
> So the two end up being the "compressed kernel" and "kernel proper".
>
> And then the subject turns into
>
> "Don't overlap kernel proper's brk with the compressed kernel's data section"
>
> Does that still confuse you?

In arch/x86/boot/header.S, we already use VO and ZO.
So please keep on using them, and don't introduce "kernel proper" etc.

Thanks

Yinghai Lu