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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 11/12] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage and ramdisk high
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 11/24/2012 09:32 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> On 11/24/2012 04:37 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Certainly /sbin/kexec isn't bothering to calculate the end of the setup
>>> header and just being far more conservative and using all of the 16bit
>>> real mode code as it's initializer.
>>>
>>
>> That's not conservative... that's just plain wrong. It means you're
>> initializing the fields in struct boot_params with garbage instead of a
>> predictable value (zero).
>>
>> We could work around it with a sentinel hack... except you *also*
>> probably modify *some* fields and now we have a horrid mix of
>> initialized and uninitialized fields to sort out... and there really
>> isn't any sane way for the kernel to sort that out.
>>
>> We have a huge problem on our hands now because of it.
>>
>
> So, given the mess we now have on our hands... any suggestions how to best
> solve it? There is the option of simply declaring old kexec binaries
> broken; they will then not work reliably with newer kernels, if they even
> work reliably now -- it is hard to know for certain.

yes, if the user updates kernel to be kexeced, then would be
reasonable to ask them to
update kexec-tools.


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