From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>,
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7u1 00/31] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:12:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1358208756.2397.16.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F499BA.4090403@zytor.com>
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On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 15:50 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm wondering if we should put your new flags in xloadflags instead just
> because some boot loaders have been known to clobber the loadflags when
> setting the upper bits.
It doesn't matter. Old broken bootloaders won't use the EFI stub entry
point if they don't see the flags that indicate it's available. But they
weren't going to anyway.
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2013-01-04 0:48 [PATCH v7u1 00/31] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 01/31] x86, mm: Fix page table early allocation offset checking Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 7:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 21:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-05 13:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-15 12:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 02/31] x86, 64bit, mm: make pgd next calculation consistent with pud/pmd Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 03/31] x86, realmode: set real_mode permissions early Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 20:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 20:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 21:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 22:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-05 13:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-07 12:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 04/31] x86, 64bit, mm: add generic kernel/ident mapping helper Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 21:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 22:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-05 13:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 05/31] x86, 64bit: copy zero-page early Yinghai Lu
2013-01-07 15:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 06/31] x86, 64bit, realmode: use init_level4_pgt to set trapmoline_pgt directly Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 17:18 ` Sakkinen, Jarkko
2013-01-04 22:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-05 9:59 ` Sakkinen, Jarkko
2013-01-07 15:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 07/31] x86, realmode: Separate real_mode reserve and setup Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 17:18 ` Sakkinen, Jarkko
2013-01-07 15:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 08/31] x86, 64bit: early #PF handler set page table Yinghai Lu
2013-01-07 15:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-10 1:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-10 12:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-10 17:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-10 20:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-12 22:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 09/31] x86, 64bit: #PF handler set page to cover 2M only Yinghai Lu
2013-01-09 22:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 10/31] x86, 64bit: Don't set max_pfn_mapped wrong value early on native path Yinghai Lu
2013-01-11 12:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-11 16:42 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-11 16:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-15 13:48 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-15 15:22 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-15 15:59 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-15 16:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 11/31] x86: Merge early_reserve_initrd for 32bit and 64bit Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 12/31] x86: add get_ramdisk_image/size() Yinghai Lu
2013-01-07 15:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-10 1:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-10 12:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 13/31] x86, boot: add get_cmd_line_ptr() Yinghai Lu
2013-01-07 15:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 14/31] x86, boot: move checking of cmd_line_ptr out of common path Yinghai Lu
2013-01-07 16:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 15/31] x86, boot: pass cmd_line_ptr with unsigned long instead Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 16/31] x86, boot: move verify_cpu.S and no_longmode down Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 17/31] x86, boot: Move lldt/ltr out of 64bit code section Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 18/31] x86, kexec: remove 1024G limitation for kexec buffer on 64bit Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 19/31] x86, kexec: set ident mapping for kernel that is above max_pfn Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 20/31] x86, kexec: replace ident_mapping_init and init_level4_page Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 21:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 22:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-05 13:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-10 1:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-10 11:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 21/31] x86, kexec: only set ident mapping for ram Yinghai Lu
2013-01-13 12:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 5:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 9:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 18:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 22/31] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage and ramdisk above 4G Yinghai Lu
2013-01-13 21:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 5:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 9:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 23:06 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 17:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 18:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 19:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 19:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 20:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-15 6:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-15 15:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-15 16:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-15 16:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-15 18:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-15 19:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-15 20:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-15 20:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 20:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 20:14 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 20:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 22:38 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 23:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-15 1:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 23:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 23:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 23/31] x86, boot: update comments about entries for 64bit image Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 11:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 18:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 18:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 18:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 20:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 18:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 24/31] x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 11:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 17:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 18:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 18:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 25/31] memblock: add memblock_mem_size() Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 22:28 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 26/31] x86: Don't enable swiotlb if there is not enough ram for it Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 16:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-04 19:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 17:50 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-04 20:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 21:02 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-04 22:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 22:26 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-04 22:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 22:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-04 22:56 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-04 23:00 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 23:21 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-04 23:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-05 2:02 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-05 4:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-05 22:04 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-04 22:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-07 15:26 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-07 17:02 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-07 19:29 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-08 2:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-08 2:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-08 3:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-08 3:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-08 3:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-08 3:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-08 23:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-09 0:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-09 0:43 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-09 0:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-09 0:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-09 1:07 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-09 1:12 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-09 2:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-09 13:24 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-09 17:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-09 18:01 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-09 19:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-09 21:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-09 21:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-10 23:07 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-10 23:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-01-10 23:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-11 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-11 16:52 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-11 17:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-15 6:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-18 15:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-24 15:39 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-24 16:51 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-24 19:22 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-24 21:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-29 2:27 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-29 3:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-31 19:28 ` Shuah Khan
2013-01-31 19:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-09 13:12 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-07 20:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-07 21:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 27/31] x86, kdump: remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 15:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-14 18:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 28/31] x86: add Crash kernel low reservation Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 29/31] x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 30/31] x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 0:48 ` [PATCH v7u1 31/31] x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 11:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-01-04 21:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-04 22:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-01-04 7:09 ` [PATCH v7u1 00/31] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 21:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 20:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 22:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-14 23:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 23:39 ` David Woodhouse
2013-01-14 23:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-15 0:12 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2013-01-15 12:19 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-15 16:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-15 19:28 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-16 11:32 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-16 17:31 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-16 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-16 18:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-17 2:35 ` Yinghai Lu
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