From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] incorrect layout of globals from head_64.S during kexec boot
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:46:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1341931594.8586.44.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120710141411.GB1791@phenom.dumpdata.com>
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 10:14 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Which brings me to another question - say we do use this patch, what
> if the decompressor overwrites the old kernels .data section. Won't
> we run into this problem again?
I've not really been following this thread that closely but wouldn't the
right answer be for the original kernel to unmap the shared info on
kexec? Or maybe remap it up to some high/reserved address? Can it read
the original address used by hvmloader at start of day and reuse that?
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-10 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-05 21:06 incorrect layout of globals from head_64.S during kexec boot Olaf Hering
[not found] ` <20120705210607.GA26908-QOLJcTWqO2uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-06 8:29 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2012-07-06 8:41 ` Daniel Kiper
2012-07-06 12:07 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-06 12:56 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <4FF6FCA9020000780008E0BB-ce6RLXgGx+vWGUEhTRrCg1aTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-06 13:31 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-06 13:53 ` Jan Beulich
2012-07-06 14:14 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-06 14:50 ` Jan Beulich
2012-07-06 17:29 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-10 9:33 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-10 14:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-10 14:46 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
[not found] ` <1341931594.8586.44.camel-T6UX0E5iMSquecqUINmzht73F7V6hmMc@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-10 14:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
[not found] ` <20120710145110.GA15218-6K5HmflnPlqSPmnEAIUT9EEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-10 15:29 ` Ian Campbell
2012-07-10 15:37 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-10 15:23 ` Olaf Hering
[not found] ` <20120710152308.GA31819-QOLJcTWqO2uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-10 17:26 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-10 18:09 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-10 18:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-10 19:08 ` Keir Fraser
2012-07-13 20:20 ` Olaf Hering
[not found] ` <20120713202003.GA20972-QOLJcTWqO2uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-14 4:54 ` Keir Fraser
2012-07-15 16:06 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-15 17:17 ` Keir Fraser
2012-07-16 15:46 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-17 10:24 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-17 12:34 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-06 15:54 ` Daniel Kiper
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