Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:17:29 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: brk patches.. |
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Yinghai Lu wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> wonder if boot loader check uncompress size aka vmlinux size in bzImage >> before it find one good position for bzImage...? >> >> > > Jeremy's brk patches may break: > 1. kexec load 64bit vmlinux on some ram that near the memory hole etc. > blindly to use ram after _end may have some problem > 2. coreboot aka linux is using elf (by mkelfImage : vmlinux + initrd), initrd became one section after _end... > could cause initrd get overwrite... by extend _brk >
But its no different from what i386 does now to allocate its initial pagetables. How does this not break now?
J
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