linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:18:12 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	nigel@...el.suspend2.net, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, mingo@...e.hu,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:40 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
[...]
> 4) Put the code is a special section .text.kexec? and have the linker
>    always do the size comparison and the computation of the section size.
> 
> The fewer conditionals we have the less likely something is to break.

Yes. This one is good. But I think current one is acceptable too.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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