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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Q] x86 - boot/header.S
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:20:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080223082026.GA6747@cvg> (raw)

Hi Peter, Sam,

could you take a look on x86/boot/header.S:280 please?

# Zero the bss
	movw	$__bss_start, %di
	movw	$_end+3, %cx
	xorl	%eax, %eax
	subw	%di, %cx
	shrw	$2, %cx
	rep; stosl

I wonder why is $_end there instead of $__bss_stop?
Well, accroding to vmlinux_32.lsd both _end and __bss_stop
are the same BUT __bss_stop is more convenient methink.
Would it be usefull to change?

		- Cyrill -

             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-23  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-23  8:20 Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2008-02-23  8:44 ` [Q] x86 - boot/header.S Yinghai Lu
2008-02-23  9:07   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-23  9:18     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-23  9:21       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-25  2:17     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-25  2:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-25  8:06   ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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