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Message-ID: <20181106191303.GN13712@zn.tnic>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 20:13:03 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
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indou.takao@...fujitsu.com, caoj.fnst@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/7] x86/boot: Copy kstrtoull() to compressed period
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 05:37:15PM +0800, Chao Fan wrote:
> kstrtoull() lives in 'uncompressed' period, used to
> convert a string to an unsigned long long.
> Copy to 'compressed' so that we can use it to
> convert the memory address from sting to unsigned
sting?
> long long in 'compressed' period.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 4 ++
> 2 files changed, 92 insertions(+)
Why do you need to copy things?
You can link that file into compressed/ as lib/kstrtox.c is a library or
include it similar to what arch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.c does.
Still better than copying the code.
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
> index 008fdc47a29c..40378408d980 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
> @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ static inline void debug_puthex(const char *s)
>
> #endif
>
> +#if (defined CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && (defined CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE twice huh? Once not enough?
:-)
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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