linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/boot: clear some fields explicitly

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 23:48:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
cc:     hpa@...or.com, john.hubbard@...il.com,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/boot: clear some fields explicitly

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 7/25/19 12:22 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > It removes the clearing of the range between kbd_status and hdr without any
> > replacement. It neither clears edid_info.
> 
> 
> Yes. Somehow I left that chunk out. Not my finest hour. 

S*** happens

> > +		char *p = (char *) boot_params;
> > +		int i;
> > +
> > +		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(toclear); i++)
> > +			memset(p + toclear[i].start, 0, toclear[i].len);
> >  	}
> >  }
> 
> Looks nice.

I have no idea whether it works and I have no cycles either, so I would
appreciate it if you could polish it up so we can handle that new fangled
GCC "feature" nicely.

Alternatively file a bug report to the GCC folks :)

But seriously I think it's not completely insane what they are doing and
the table based approach is definitely more readable and maintainable than
the existing stuff.

Thanks,

	tglx