linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 19/27] x86, boot: update comments about entries for 64bit image

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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:54:04 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 19/27] x86, boot: update comments about entries for
 64bit image

On 12/13/2012 04:51 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/13/2012 04:13 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> It is definitely the minmum we can rely on, and so is the minimum we should
>>> rely on.  In fact, we don't even need .bss/.brk to be mapped, but we
>>> probably should require that as a matter of protocol.
>>
>> in my version of arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S is using BRK to do
>> ident/kernel high mapping
>> for kernel that is above 4G.
>> so .brk is needed.
>
> also need to make sure zero page and command line get ident mapping.
> because arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S is using them.
>

... or we need to do the same kind of thing there.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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