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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 03/27] x86, boot: move verify_cpu.S and no_longmode after 0x200
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 02:01:57PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> We are short of space before 0x200 that is entry for startup_64.

And you're moving this down because of the couple of bytes the next
patch is adding? If so, then explain that here.

> According to hpa, we can not change startup_64 to other offset and
> that become ABI now.
>
> We could move function verify_cpu and no_longmode down, because one is
> used via call and another will not return.
> So could avoid extra code of jmp back and forth if we would move other
> lines.

What does that sentence even mean? Why is it in the commit message?

> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 17 +++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> index 2c4b171..fb984c0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> @@ -176,14 +176,6 @@ ENTRY(startup_32)
> lret
> ENDPROC(startup_32)
>
> -no_longmode:
> - /* This isn't an x86-64 CPU so hang */
> -1:
> - hlt
> - jmp 1b
> -
> -#include "../../kernel/verify_cpu.S"
> -
> /*
> * Be careful here startup_64 needs to be at a predictable
> * address so I can export it in an ELF header. Bootloaders
> @@ -349,6 +341,15 @@ relocated:
> */
> jmp *%rbp
>
> + .code32
> +no_longmode:
> + /* This isn't an x86-64 CPU so hang */
> +1:
> + hlt
> + jmp 1b
> +
> +#include "../../kernel/verify_cpu.S"
> +
> .data
> gdt:
> .word gdt_end - gdt
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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Boris.

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