Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:40:12 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Fix boot failure when SMP MP-table is based at 0 |
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 05:00:31PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote: > Btw, it was working before because instead of saving off the physical > address as 5997efb96756 now does, it saved off a virtual address that > pointed to physical address 0 (0xffff880000000000) and used that in the > conditional.
Dunno, should we support any braindead vm implementation which puts stuff in the low megabyte?
I mean, the fix is simple enough and we probably don't care all that much whatever potent sh*t people are smoking as long as it is all the same to the kernel...
IMO.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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