Re: [PATCH v3] efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers

[Michael Brown <mbrown-OViyBiuKJBuK421+ScFKDQ@public.gmane.org>]

On 11/07/14 08:41, Matt Fleming wrote:
>> i.e. that the memory used for alignment was not explicitly
>> allocated. If the EFI boot stub instead allocates space for the
>> aligned kernel using AllocatePages() (and allocates enough space for
>> the whole of init_size), then the problem I described does not
>> exist.
>
> Right, this shouldn't be a problem because we do in fact allocate space
> using the EFI boottime services in efi_relocate_kernel(), taking the
> alignment into account, and then perform the kernel image copy.
>
> I still think your change makes sense, I'm just inclined to delete the
> paragraph referring to the corruption bug (which we've established
> doesn't exist).

Since the patch itself is so trivial, I'm happy for you to commit it as 
your own, with whatever commit message you think makes most sense.

Michael