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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 4:11 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>> It sounds like we are leaning toward some form of the sentinel hack, which
>> means we need an enumerated list of things that should *not* be zeroed if
>> the sentinel is present.
>>
>> The option of declaring the list frozen makes me a bit nervous, because it
>> isn't clear that we don't already have fields that will be misinterpreted by
>> the kernel if filled in from the file.
>
> USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS bit in xloadflags should work.

new kexec will clean around bit around setup head, and set that bit,
if it is not with real_mode entry.

32bit and 64bit entry:
old kernel has no idea of this bit, and still use old ramdisk_image,
cmd_line_ptr in setup header.
new kernel will check that bit before it use ext_ramdisk_image, and
ext_cmd_line_ptr.

old kexec and new kernel is safe too, because that bit is not set, new
kernel will not use ex_...

later all new kernel need to check USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS bit for all new
added field in boot_params.


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