linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7u1 23/31] x86, boot: update comments about entries for 64bit image

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:43:59 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7u1 23/31] x86, boot: update comments about entries for
 64bit image

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:35:28AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> that is:
> ---
> The memory for struct boot_params
> could be allocated anywhere (even above 4G) and initialized to all zero.
> ---

This sounds ok.

> bootloader memset zero_page at first means.
> and all bootloader did that except kexec. and it is fixed patches for
> kexec-tools.

This reads very strange. Do you mean:

"All bootloaders clear the zero page as early as possible, except kexec.
This is now fixed in kexec-tools, too."

?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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