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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: brk patches..
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:08:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A8F100.40904@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A8ED3D.1060704@kernel.org>

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> wonder if boot loader check uncompress size aka vmlinux size in bzImage
>> before it find one good position for bzImage...?
>>
> 
> Jeremy's brk patches may break:
> 1. kexec load 64bit vmlinux on some ram that near the memory hole etc.
> blindly to use ram after _end may have some problem
> 2. coreboot aka linux is using elf (by mkelfImage : vmlinux + initrd), initrd became one section after _end...
> could cause initrd get overwrite... by extend _brk
> 

Both of these are already invalid use.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-28  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-28  1:51 [PATCH] Simple brk allocator for very early allocations Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: add brk allocation for very, " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: reserve brk earlier Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86-32: use brk segment for allocating initial kernel pagetable Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  7:02   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  7:05     ` J Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  7:15       ` J Ingo Molnar
2009-02-28  7:39         ` does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size? Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  7:47           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-28  7:54             ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  8:08               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-28 20:42                 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  7:52           ` brk patches Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  8:08             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-02-28  8:17             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 20:40               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 23:53                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  1:02                   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-02  1:07                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  1:16                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  1:36                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  1:54                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  2:12                             ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01  1:23               ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into bss Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01  8:31                 ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into bss -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01  9:20                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-01 17:49                     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 18:06                     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 23:29                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  0:55                         ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-09  8:15                           ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into .bss -v4 Yinghai Lu
2009-03-09 15:41                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-09 17:35                               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-09 18:28                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11  1:39                                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-09  7:45                         ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into bss -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  8:07           ` does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size? H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-28  8:17         ` J Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  7:30       ` J Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: use brk allocation for DMI Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: leave _brk_end defined Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  5:23 ` [PATCH] Simple brk allocator for very early allocations Andrew Morton
2009-02-28  6:30   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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