From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 16:50:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131004145001.GA4627@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89e0284e-89b5-42ad-8120-128ef1bf0152@email.android.com>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 07:43:37AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> We can do that... but it is different from what Windows does to my
> understanding and it also has the potential of severe pathologies...
> e.g. a window at the top of the address space being mapped.
Right, so after Matt and I talked about it a bit on IRC, we actually
don't really care how we do the mappings if we spell them out later to
kexec over proc or somewhere else, as you wanted.
So we can do the VA address space saving scheme first and change it
later, if there are issues. We'll see.
Thanks.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-04 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-19 14:54 [PATCH 00/11] EFI runtime services virtual mapping Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 01/11] efi: Simplify EFI_DEBUG Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 02/11] efi: Remove EFI_PAGE_SHIFT and EFI_PAGE_SIZE Borislav Petkov
2013-09-20 10:42 ` Matt Fleming
2013-09-21 15:21 ` Leif Lindholm
2013-09-21 15:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-21 15:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-21 16:01 ` Leif Lindholm
2013-09-21 16:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-21 15:59 ` Leif Lindholm
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 03/11] x86, pageattr: Lookup address in an arbitrary PGD Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 04/11] x86, pageattr: Add a PGD pagetable populating function Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 05/11] x86, pageattr: Add a PUD " Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 06/11] x86, pageattr: Add a PMD " Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 07/11] x86, pageattr: Add a PTE " Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 08/11] x86, pageattr: Add a PUD error unwinding path Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 09/11] x86, pageattr: Add last levels of error path Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86, cpa: Map in an arbitrary pgd Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 11/11] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping Borislav Petkov
2013-09-21 11:39 ` [PATCH -v2] " Borislav Petkov
2013-09-22 12:35 ` Dave Young
2013-09-22 13:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-22 14:00 ` Dave Young
2013-09-22 14:31 ` Dave Young
2013-09-22 15:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-22 16:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-23 5:45 ` Dave Young
2013-09-24 2:52 ` Dave Young
2013-09-24 3:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-24 4:57 ` Dave Young
2013-09-24 4:58 ` Dave Young
2013-09-24 5:23 ` Dave Young
2013-09-24 8:57 ` Dave Young
2013-09-24 9:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-24 10:01 ` Dave Young
2013-09-24 12:45 ` Dave Young
2013-10-02 10:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-02 15:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-02 17:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-02 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-02 18:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-02 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-04 9:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-04 14:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-04 14:50 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-09-23 5:47 ` Dave Young
2013-09-23 6:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-23 7:08 ` Dave Young
2013-09-23 8:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-25 9:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-20 7:29 ` [PATCH 00/11] EFI runtime " Dave Young
2013-09-20 8:19 ` Dave Young
2013-09-20 9:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-20 10:07 ` Dave Young
2013-09-20 9:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-20 9:44 ` Matt Fleming
2013-09-20 9:49 ` Matt Fleming
2013-09-20 10:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-20 11:51 ` Dave Young
2013-09-20 12:29 ` Matt Fleming
2013-09-20 14:04 ` Dave Young
2013-10-08 16:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-08 16:47 ` [PATCH 11/12] efi: Add an efi= kernel command line parameter Borislav Petkov
2013-10-28 11:02 ` Matt Fleming
2013-10-28 11:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-08 16:48 ` [PATCH 12/12] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping Borislav Petkov
2013-10-10 8:06 ` Dave Young
2013-10-10 8:14 ` Dave Young
2013-10-10 8:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-10 12:34 ` Matt Fleming
2013-10-11 6:24 ` Dave Young
2013-10-11 7:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-12 7:54 ` Dave Young
2013-10-12 10:13 ` Matt Fleming
2013-10-12 10:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-13 3:11 ` Dave Young
2013-10-13 9:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14 15:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-21 12:47 ` Dave Young
2013-10-21 13:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-21 15:04 ` Dave Young
2013-10-22 11:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-23 2:17 ` Dave Young
2013-10-23 12:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-23 12:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-23 12:51 ` Dave Young
2013-10-23 13:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-26 15:50 ` Matt Fleming
2013-10-13 3:06 ` Dave Young
2013-10-11 10:27 ` Matt Fleming
2013-10-11 13:42 ` Dave Young
2013-10-12 2:14 ` Dave Young
2013-10-14 15:57 ` Peter Jones
2013-10-16 6:27 ` Dave Young
2013-10-28 11:22 ` Matt Fleming
2013-10-28 16:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-29 6:47 ` Dave Young
2013-10-29 9:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-30 9:32 ` Dave Young
2013-10-30 10:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-31 7:07 ` Dave Young
2013-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH 00/11] EFI runtime " Matt Fleming
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-24 14:56 [PATCH -v2] EFI: Runtime " Borislav Petkov
2013-09-25 0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-25 2:36 ` Dave Young
2013-09-25 5:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-26 3:12 ` Dave Young
2013-09-30 20:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-30 20:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-09-30 20:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-30 20:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-09-30 21:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-30 21:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-10-08 9:18 ` Dave Young
2013-09-25 2:31 ` Dave Young
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