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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:52:29 -0800 From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com> Subject: brk patches.. 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 YH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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