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Date:   Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:20:58 -0400
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>, x86@...nel.org,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/boot/64: Explicitly map boot_params and
 command line

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 07:07:42PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:47:55PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > Just for clarity, by cleanups you mean patches 2 and 3? i.e. you want to
> > see 1, 4, 2, 3?
> 
> It is important for:
> 
> [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/boot/64: Explicitly map boot_params and command line
> 
> to come first so that it goes in now.

This patch depends on 1 to initialize boot_params before
initialize_identity_maps() is called. You want me to rework it to avoid
that?

> 
> The rest:
> 
> [PATCH v2 1/5] x86/boot: Initialize boot_params in startup code
> [PATCH v2 2/5] x86/boot: Split out command-line related declarations
> [PATCH v2 3/5] x86/boot/64: Show original faulting address in case of error
> 
> can come in any order and when ready.
> 
> Thx.
> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
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