On 12/06/2012 10:19 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:36 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/05/2012 04:15 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
I don't see why that isn't the right fix. We copy the data into
boot_params early in the boot; that *is* the official copy as far as the
kernel is concerned.
So this patch very much seems like The Right Thing.
it moves boot_params from __initdata to data.
should be from __initdata to bss
and just for using pointer to setup_data.
should add setup_data pointer instead. so will not waste (4096 - 8) bytes.
I'm not following the whole discussion here, but my impression is that
what's in my -next branch is acceptable
(http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git;a=commitdiff;h=328949ff10f2e3fcb11472571294beed39488342)
If not, please explain further and provide a patch to fix it.
NAK on this bit:
+ if (boot_params.hdr.version < 0x0209)
+ return 0;
This field is kernel->bootloader documentation. If a nonmaching value
somehow leaks into the kernel, the kernel could either panic("Bootloader
written by moron") or it should clear some fields, but littering the
kernel with these kinds of tests is just plain braindead.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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