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

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Message-ID: <20080813055122.GB30294@verge.net.au>
Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:51:24 +1000
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	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 Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:18:12PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> 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.

If you really think that 1) is the best way

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>

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