On 08/21/14 at 02:10pm, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > If kernel is being moved physically, then we potentially have the issue of > it stomping other things. So how do we make sure that it does not overwrite > initramfs, or previous kernel's page tables or something else? In case you don't read that part, memory of initrd, cmdline and others won't be overwritten. This work is done in x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c::mem_avoid_init(). Thanks WANG Chao