On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 22:31 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > PAGE_SIZE/2. This patch adds runtime checking for this.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang at intel.com>
> ...
>
> > > {
> > > if (nx_enabled)
> > > set_pages_x(image->control_code_page, 1);
> > > +
> > > + BUG_ON((unsigned long)kexec_control_page_code_end - \
> > > + (unsigned long)relocate_kernel >= PAGE_SIZE/2);
> > > +
> >
>
> > Run time check is better than nothing but I think in this case it would
> > be better if we can catch it at compile time.
> >
> > One of the methods will be to write a small program of your own and
> > put in script/ and at build time check for the size and flag error. May
> > be there are other better ways to do this.
>
> BUILD_BUG_ON()?
I tried with BUILD_BUG_ON(), and compiling is OK for both of following
statement:
BUILD_BUG_ON((unsigned long)kexec_control_page_code_end - \
(unsigned long)relocate_kernel >= PAGE_SIZE/2);
BUILD_BUG_ON((unsigned long)kexec_control_page_code_end - \
(unsigned long)relocate_kernel < PAGE_SIZE/2);
In general, I think value of kexec_control_page_code_end and
relocate_kernel is not determined during compiling time. So
BUILD_BUG_ON() doesn't work.
Another idea, use ASSERT() command of ld link script as in the following
patch:
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
@@ -209,3 +209,5 @@ SECTIONS
DWARF_DEBUG
}
+
+#include "vmlinux_check_32.lds.S"
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_check_32.lds.S
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#include <asm/kexec.h>
+
+ASSERT(kexec_control_page_code_end - relocate_kernel >= 2048, "kexec control page code size is too big")
It works for me. What do you think about that?
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
