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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: always clear bss
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 08:50:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <463B5643.1040204@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463B49F0.401@goop.org>

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Yes, that's more or less the same code, aside from using 0x40(%esi) as a
> stack.  Would that be OK here?
> 

I saw the 0x40(%esi) stack stuff, and I'm utterly puzzled by it.  There
is no reason one can't set up %esp to point to a hunk in ordinary memory
and use it?

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-04 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04  8:21 [PATCH] i386: always clear bss Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 11:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 14:57   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 15:22     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:26       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 15:45         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:50     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-04 17:05       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 17:08         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 17:15           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 17:26             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 19:00               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 19:03                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 23:17                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-05  1:45                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-05  1:49                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-05  2:11                       ` Eric W. Biederman

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