On 08/25/17 at 11:03am, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 06:30:50PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 05:18:11PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > > > The first PT_LOAD segment, which is assumed to be "text" code, in vmlinux > > > will be loaded at the offset of TEXT_OFFSET from the begining of system > > > memory. The other PT_LOAD segments are placed relative to the first one. > > > > I really don't like assuming things about the vmlinux ELF file. > > If so, vmlinux is not an appropriate format for loading. > > > > Regarding kernel verification, since there is no standard way to contain > > > a signature within elf binary, we follow PowerPC's (not yet upstreamed) > > > approach, that is, appending a signature right after the kernel binary > > > itself like module signing. > > > > I also *really* don't like this. It's a bizarre in-band mechanism, > > without explcit information. It's not a nice ABI. > > > > If we can load an Image, why do we need to be able to load a vmlinux? > > Well, kexec-tools does. I don't know why Geoff wanted to support vmlinux. > I'm just trying to support what kexec-tools does support. We only add things when it is really necessary, kexec-tools functionalities should have some historic reasons. If only for doing kexec-tools has done I would say just not to do it. Thanks Dave
