From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758128Ab3ANSoE (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:44:04 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:45420 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757360Ab3ANSoB (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:44:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:43:59 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Jan Kiszka , Jason Wessel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Landley , Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH v7u1 23/31] x86, boot: update comments about entries for 64bit image Message-ID: <20130114184359.GA2015@liondog.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Yinghai Lu , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Jan Kiszka , Jason Wessel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Landley , Matt Fleming References: <1357260531-11115-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1357260531-11115-24-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20130114112045.GF1228@liondog.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:35:28AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > that is: > --- > The memory for struct boot_params > could be allocated anywhere (even above 4G) and initialized to all zero. > --- This sounds ok. > bootloader memset zero_page at first means. > and all bootloader did that except kexec. and it is fixed patches for > kexec-tools. This reads very strange. Do you mean: "All bootloaders clear the zero page as early as possible, except kexec. This is now fixed in kexec-tools, too." ? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --