Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:24:49 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv4 3/4] x86/boot/compressed/64: Introduce place_trampoline() |
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* Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:30:48AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > But if the bootloader put the kernel above 4G (not sure if anybody does > > > this), we would loose control as soon as paging is disabled as code > > > becomes unreachable. > > > > Yeah, so instead of the double 'as' which is syntactically right but a bit > > confusing to read, how about something like: > > > > But if the bootloader put the kernel above 4G (not sure if anybody does > > this), we would loose control as soon as paging is disabled, because the > > code becomes unreachable to the CPU. > > btw, it's "lose control".
Indeed!
Thanks,
Ingo
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