linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] x86, boot: Don't overlap VO with ZO data

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQVy47PnXdd=c_st7OSatFQcvwfzk8XWej=9KUTnRyxKPw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:17:01 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] x86, boot: Don't overlap VO with ZO data

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 08:05:52AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> We need to keep VO and ZO here...
>
> Why?

Make it not confusing.

ZO: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
VO: vmlinux

setup + ZO ==> bzImage.

compressed kernel is just compressed VO.

Thanks

Yinghai
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